From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 9 17:31:35 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 8797437B401 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 17:31:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.det2.ameritech.net (mailhost1-sfldmi.sfldmi.ameritech.net [206.141.193.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8397143F93 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 17:31:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbailey27@ameritech.net) Received: from ameritech.net ([67.38.16.140]) by mailhost.det2.ameritech.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with ESMTP id <20030210013116.ODMB26543.mailhost.det2.ameritech.net@ameritech.net>; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 20:31:16 -0500 Message-ID: <3E4700D0.8070606@ameritech.net> Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 20:30:56 -0500 From: northern snowfall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020518 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Vier Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd installer is braindead References: <20030209060819.GA452@yzero> <3E45F344.7070202@ameritech.net> <20030209224837.GA354@yzero> <20030210012442.GA368@yzero> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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? > Did you try using another ethernet card besides the 8139? I had the same problems when using this chip. Finally switching to the Kingston is what saved the install. Don > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message