From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 28 22:56:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA12955 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 22:56:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from qatar.net.qa (qatar.net.qa [194.133.33.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA12938 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 22:56:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from difb.qatar.net.qa by qatar.net.qa (SMI-8.6/Qatar-Internet-Sendmail It's now Tue, 29 Jul 1997 08:51:53 -0300) id IAA20384; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 08:51:53 -0300 Received: by difb.qatar.net.qa with Microsoft Mail id <01BC9BFD.A2EFFFC0@difb.qatar.net.qa>; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 08:58:52 +-300 Message-ID: <01BC9BFD.A2EFFFC0@difb.qatar.net.qa> From: Pajero To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Installing FreeBSD 2.2.2 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 08:57:46 +-300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id WAA12949 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am installing from within DOS partition, minimal installation. After extracting from the bin directory (from the hard disk), the installation process says "unable to transfer the bin distribution from wd0s1" I have also tried installing from the floppies but I get the same result: "unable to transfer the bin distribution from fd0". My Notebook PC specification is: Intel Pentium 90 8 Mb RAM 810 MB Hard disk (1571cyl, 16 heads, 63 sect/cyl) Please Help. Thank you. H.S. Lingat P.O. Box 18796 Doha, Qatar e-mail address: termie@qatar.net.qa