From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 30 14:47:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA07078 for current-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 14:47:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from sendero.i-connect.net ([206.190.144.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA07059 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 14:47:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from shimon@localhost) by sendero.i-connect.net (8.8.5/8.8.4) id PAA09345; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 15:45:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 12:18:55 -0800 (PST) Organization: iConnect Corp. From: Simon Shapiro To: Doug White Subject: RE: install broken on the 970124 snap (fwd) Cc: current@freebsd.org, Doug White Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Doug White; On 29-Jan-97 you wrote: ... > Little problem with installation on yesterday's SNAP release. I am doing > an install from a dos partition, and I copied everything correctly into > c:\freebsd\bin. When I get to the point in the install where it is to > do the extraction of the distributions, the install says it can't find > the bin distribution. I put the install system into debug mode to watch > the festivities, and it seemed to be snagging the bin.inf and choking on > it. It was bombing out with an error about a "P" and it couldn't find > "pieces". > > I played with it for a bit, and if you edit bin.inf and change the "Pieces > = 72" to "pieces = 72" it works correctly. > > Minor typo, but it prevented me from installing. Just thought you should > know. I am working with the dist from ftp.freebsd.org. > > Thanks, Had similar problems installing from a ufs partition... Simon