From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 9 17:24:56 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB57737B405 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 17:24:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27BD343F85 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 17:24:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tmv@comcast.net) Received: from zero (pcp02139659pcs.reston01.va.comcast.net [68.48.30.216]) by mtaout06.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.09 (built Jan 7 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HA200KTUJX65L@mtaout06.icomcast.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 20:24:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from nester by zero with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18i2gc-000062-00 for ; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 20:24:42 -0500 Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 20:24:42 -0500 From: Tom Vier Subject: freebsd installer is braindead In-reply-to: <20030209224837.GA354@yzero> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: Tom Vier Message-id: <20030210012442.GA368@yzero> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i References: <20030209060819.GA452@yzero> <3E45F344.7070202@ameritech.net> <20030209224837.GA354@yzero> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i just tried 4.7 and it doesn't work either. how do you people install freebsd? both 4.7 and 5.0 installers are braindead. does anyone have a work around for the problem of the installer extracting into the mfsroot instead of /mnt? -- Tom Vier DSA Key ID 0xE6CB97DA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message