From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 24 12:13:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26588 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:13:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26567 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:13:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA26354; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:13:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:13:09 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Steve Owens cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem doing floppy installation. In-Reply-To: <34ED0F31.ECBE4AFA@downcity.net> 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 On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Steve Owens wrote: > Hi, > > I followed the steps in the installation guide in accordance with > doing a minimal install using all of the files in the bin.* set. The > install runs just fine, it even finds my floppy drive. But when I go to > commit changes and it tells me to put the floppy into the drive, I do, > and hit enter then the install comes back with a message that it could > not extract the bin package. > > I have the first disk ( after the boot that is) set up as follows: > bin.inf > bin.aa > bin.ab > bin.ac > bin.ad > bin.ae > bin.af > CHECKSUM.MD5 You ned to put the file in bin\ and you can drop checksum and the *.mtree files. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message