From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 1 16:39:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA18019 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 16:39:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from parody.tecc.co.uk (parody.tecc.co.uk [193.128.6.83]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA18012 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 16:39:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by parody.tecc.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA00210; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 11:59:04 GMT Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 11:59:04 +0000 () From: James Raynard To: mitch@bighorn.accessnv.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing from dos part or CD In-Reply-To: <199512280943.BAA12389@bighorn.accessnv.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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'