Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 23:17:26 +0100 From: "Brian" <Killabunny@seductive.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Installation fails to locate source Dir. Message-ID: <000801c06a09$7abe0fa0$0c4011d4@telekabel.at>
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Greetings,
*Note - as i'm not currently subscribed to the mailing list (due to the delay of confirming e-mail from the mailing list) i'd appreciate it if any responses were e-mailed to me personally, although i could just as well hunt them down in the mailing list archive.
Durring the Installation of FreeBSD 4.2, i encounter several errors whining about missing files - infact, *none* of the files were actually recognised. In otherwords, the errors which occur are described as "bin packages could not be retreived from (Fat32 primary partition)" ...or something similar . The conclusion to which i've come is that the installation is simply not recognising or unable to read from/write to the C:\FREEBSD\ directory under my MsDos partition. This is the source directory which i'm using for the installation, (installing from a DOS partition *duh*). I've run into a *similar* problem when attempting to install Slackware Linux (but gave up) earlier. I doubt that the boot kernel failed to detect my harddrive, as i was able to proceed through the partitioning stage of the installation. =\
To the point... Does anyone have a logical sollution for this? Has it happened before?
*keep it real*
-Brian
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Greetings,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>*Note - as i'm not currently subscribed to the
mailing list (due to the delay of confirming e-mail from the mailing list) i'd
appreciate it if any responses were e-mailed to me personally, although i could
just as well hunt them down in the mailing list archive. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Durring the Installation of FreeBSD
4.2, i encounter several errors whining about missing files - infact,
*none* of the files were actually recognised. In otherwords, the
errors which occur are described as "bin packages could not be
retreived from (Fat32 primary partition)" ...or something similar . The
conclusion to which i've come is that the installation is simply not recognising
or unable to read from/write to the C:\FREEBSD\ directory under my MsDos
partition. This is the source directory which i'm using for the installation,
(installing from a DOS partition *duh*). I've run into a *similar* problem
when attempting to install Slackware Linux (but gave up) earlier.
I doubt that the boot kernel failed to detect my harddrive, as i was able
to proceed through the partitioning stage of the installation. =\ <BR>To the
point... Does anyone have a logical sollution for this? Has it happened before?
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> *keep it real* </FONT></DIV>
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-Brian</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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