From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 23 17:01:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA27319 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 17:01:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts10-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.109]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA27291 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 17:01:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA00304; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 17:02:15 -0800 Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 17:02:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: WWWeb Administrator cc: questions@freebsd.org, jlwest@tseinc.com Subject: Re: Help! Trouble installing FreeBSD 2.1 In-Reply-To: <199603222218.QAA00349@bsd.tseinc.com> 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 Fri, 22 Mar 1996, WWWeb Administrator wrote: > I am having trouble installing FreeBSD 2.1 on a new system. When I try to > install via FTP from a CD-ROM drive on my network or via ftp from > www.freebsd.org, I get a message stating that it cannot find the bin/bin.aa > file. It appears to be getting the root filesystem from the CD. If I put a > Matsumi CD-ROM drive in the machine I am trying to install FreeBSD on, it > works fine. I am only loading FreeBSD on this machine. What am I missing > or doing WRONG. The CD wasn't built to be directly mounted as an FTP site, ALTHOUGH IT SHOULD (*hint hint*). Problem is that stuff on the CD isn't in the same place as it would on the real FTP site. You probably have to move some files around (root.flp comes to mind) to make it match an official ftp site's organization. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major