From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 18 23:52:48 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id XAA06692 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:52:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.84]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA06687 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:52:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00353; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:52:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:52:39 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Ken Mason cc: questions@freeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 2.1.6 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 Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Ken Mason wrote: > I am attempting to install FreeBSD 2.1.6 an am encountering the following > problem: After the installation reads the bin floppies I get the message > "Couldn't extract the following distributions. This maybe because they > were not on the installation media chosen: doc manpages dict This is a bit nutty. Try putting the .inf file for the next distribution on the last disk of the previous distribution, or try putting all the .inf's on one disk. This is a goofy part of the 2.1.6 install that isn't well documented, unfortunately. > After the install, I re-booted and used sysinstall in an attempt to install the > doc disks. I the got the message "Unable to get packages/INDEX from > selected media". Use the 'pkg_add' command instead of sysinstall. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major