From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 28 19:35:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA04765 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 19:35:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA04747 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 19:35:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA25595; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 19:34:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 19:34:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Robert J. Brown" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install broken on the 970124 snap In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 25 Jan 1997, Robert J. Brown wrote: > Little problem with installation on yesterday's SNAP release. I am doing > an install from a dos partition, and I copied everything correctly into > c:\freebsd\bin. When I get to the point in the install where it is to > do the extraction of the distributions, the install says it can't find > the bin distribution. I put the install system into debug mode to watch > the festivities, and it seemed to be snagging the bin.inf and choking on > it. It was bombing out with an error about a "P" and it couldn't find > "pieces". Thanks for the report! However, snap problems should be posted to hackers@freebsd.org or current@freebsd.org; I'll do the honors and forward this to current. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major