From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 14 2:24:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.realtime.net (mail5.realtime.net [205.238.128.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E74414C9B for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 02:24:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: from apm7-212.realtime.net ([204.96.0.212]) by -0600 ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 22:31:20 --0600 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 22:39:57 -0500 (CDT) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl.roost.net To: Spamoff Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: [Fwd: cannot install 3.1 from CDROM] In-Reply-To: <3713E03B.2DACEB29@tampabay.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had the "same" problem (see other posts) and was able to get the system to run after booting from the CDROM drive. But the transfer portion of that software looses stuff. Copy the distributions to the hard drive and then run the install.sh or just run it from the CDROM drive itself. I've had no trouble with pkg_add or ports building from the CDROM, just when using sysinstall. John PS you must have been posting at the same time I was flailing.;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message