From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 29 09:35:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA27316 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:35:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA27304 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:35:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA08558; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:34:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:34:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Pajero cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: FW: Installing FreeBSD 2.2.2 In-Reply-To: <01BC9BFE.445D60A0@difb.qatar.net.qa> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Pajero wrote: > 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" The files must be stored on your primary DOS partition (drive C) and need to be in C:\FREEBSD\BIN\. Don't extract the BIN.AA, BIN.BB, etc. files. > I have also tried installing from the floppies but I get the same > result: "unable to transfer the bin distribution from fd0". Hop over to ALT-F2 and see if you can track down the specific error message. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo