From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 14:14:59 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 14:14:55 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from viemta04.chello.at (viemta04.chello.at [195.34.133.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2295937B400 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 14:14:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from muerte ([212.17.64.12]) by viemta04.chello.at (InterMail vK.4.02.00.10 201-232-116-110 license 9caa03a7df1d31c048ffcc0d31ac5855) with SMTP id <20001218221452.DQCL18633.viemta04@muerte> for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 23:14:52 +0100 Message-ID: <000801c06a09$7abe0fa0$0c4011d4@telekabel.at> Reply-To: "Brian" From: "Brian" To: Subject: Installation fails to locate source Dir. Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 23:17:26 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01C06A11.D96D9680" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C06A11.D96D9680 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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.=20 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. =3D\=20 To the point... Does anyone have a logical sollution for this? Has it = happened before?=20 *keep it real*=20 -Brian ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C06A11.D96D9680 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Greetings,
*Note - as i'm not currently subscribed = to the=20 mailing list (due to the delay of confirming e-mail from the mailing = list) i'd=20 appreciate it if any responses were e-mailed to me personally, although = i could=20 just as well hunt them down in the mailing list archive.
   Durring the Installation = of FreeBSD=20 4.2, i encounter several errors whining about missing files - = infact,=20 *none* of the files were actually recognised. In otherwords, the=20 errors which occur are described as "bin packages could = not be=20 retreived from (Fat32 primary partition)" ...or something similar . = The=20 conclusion to which i've come is that the installation is simply not = recognising=20 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,=20 (installing from a DOS partition *duh*). I've run into a *similar* = problem=20 when attempting to install Slackware Linux (but gave up) = earlier.=20 I doubt that the boot kernel failed to detect my harddrive, as i = was able=20 to proceed through the partitioning stage of the installation. =3D\ =
To the=20 point... Does anyone have a logical sollution for this? Has it happened = before?=20
 *keep it real*
     =20 -Brian
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