From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 30 21:35:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gw.Adl.USSR.net (digita1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E6D837B4FE for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:35:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from dope (Dope.adl.ussr.net [203.38.181.6]) by gw.Adl.USSR.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id e9V5ZgP07286; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:05:42 +1030 (CST) Reply-To: From: "James" To: "Andy Farkas" , "James" Cc: Subject: RE: Installation problems with freebsd 4.1.1 - both ftp/local cd Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:05:17 +1030 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for your reply - muchly appreciated :-) I bought the cd of both 4.1, and then 4.1.1 (thats the one I'm having = problems with) - from www.everythinglinux.com.au - after the problems = I've been having with 4.1.1 - I thought I would rule out hardware = problems, by attempting to install 4.1 - which is currently installing = no problems! I've already phoned the people at www.everythinglinux.com.au, and = they're sending me a replacement cd, with a return envelope, so that I = can send them the f**ked cd back :-)) *very happy that it proves that it wasn't a hardware problem* regards james -----Original Message----- From: Andy Farkas [mailto:andyf@speednet.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 3:53 PM To: James Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation problems with freebsd 4.1.1 - both ftp/local cd On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, James wrote: > Setting up the bsd installation program, I put 'any', as the > distribution, as it can't seem to find "4.1.1-RELEASE"... >=20 > It connects to my ftp server fine, downloads /bin/bin.inf, and has > been sitting there with the message; DEBUG: parsing attributes file > for distribution bin for the last 20 odd minutes Setup your FTP server such that the CDROM root is under a directory = called "4.1.1-RELEASE". The install program will ftp to the w2k machine, = login, then try and cd to the distribution directory. >=20 > james > adelaide, south Australia. >=20 -- =20 :{ andyf@speednet.com.au =20 Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message