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Date:      Sat, 30 Dec 1995 11:59:04 +0000 ()
From:      James Raynard <fqueries@parody.tecc.co.uk>
To:        mitch@bighorn.accessnv.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing from dos part or CD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.951230115640.180B-100000@parody.tecc.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199512280943.BAA12389@bighorn.accessnv.com>

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On Fri, 29 Dec 1995 mitch@bighorn.accessnv.com wrote:

> I xcopied the files from e:\dist\bin to my c:\freebsd.  I actually 
> copied the whole dist's to my C: drive because I have enough free 
> space on C:.  I then proceeded to copy the floppies directory and I 
> also made a bootable floppy.  When I ran the install program and said 
> the media type was from dos partition, it would create my new 
> partitions but it could not find the boot mirror from the dos 
> partition or from the floppy I had made.

The install program expects to find the distfiles in the same directories
as on the CD's, ie in c:\freebsd\bin, c:\freebsd\src, etc. (I think this
is mentioned in the instructions somewhere).

James

Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'




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