Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 17:26:07 +0200 From: Eric Lemiere <elemiere@matra-ms2i.fr> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD 3.1 installation troubleshooting Message-ID: <37384C0F.768CFB60@matra-ms2i.fr>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi everybody! I've been facing a problem while installing FreeBSD 3.1 Would anybody share one possible explanation/solution with me? Thanks! ****************************************************** Pb: installation of FreeBSD 3.1 After booting from CD and beginning the installation which seems correctly done (works well under version 2.2.8 with the same parameters), we choose the "DOS" media, while having taken care to recopy the CD complete tree structure to directory C:\FREEBSD of the DOS partition. The system asks to proceed, what we do. One obtains then immediately, at the begining of the package extraction step, the error: "couldn't extract the following distributions. maybe because they were not available on the media you've selected: bin, doc, ..." and it stops the installation process: no package was installed. This happens with FreeBSD 3.1. This does not happens with FreeBSD 2.2.8, configured under the same conditions. How to explain that? In addition, we had, initially tested the installation directly from CD, but even if the boot starts well (it detects the controller of the Atapi-IDE CD-Rom : wdc1), it does not detect the drive itself (wd1), and consequently the choice of the Media "CD-Rom" was impossible; that has thus forced us to install from support DOS. P.S.: the CD-ROM drive is a Compaq-CRD-8322B Atapi on the second IDE controler ****************************************************** Eric Lemiere -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Division Telecom & Securite Tel : 01 34 63 74 53 MATRA SYSTEMES & INFORMATION Fax : 01 34 63 74 74 6, rue Dewoitine e-mail: elemiere@matra-ms2i.fr 78142 VELIZY-VILLACOUBLAY FRANCE http://www.matra-msi.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-- Attachment #2 --] begin: vcard fn: Eric LEMIERE n: LEMIERE;Eric org: MATRA SYSTEMES & INFORMATION adr: 6, rue Dewoitine;;;VELIZY-VILLACOUBLAY;;78142;FRANCE email;internet: elemiere@matra-ms2i.fr tel;work: (33) 01 34 63 74 53 tel;fax: (33) 01 34 63 74 74 x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard
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