From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 12 13:57:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22465 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 13:57:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22252 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 13:55:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jer@mercury.jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA09441; Tue, 12 May 1998 15:55:22 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 15:55:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner To: "John H." cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation Problems In-Reply-To: <3557E8E7.9201A67D@mt.arias.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 May 1998, John H. wrote: > -DOS: Tried installing it from a DOS partition, but it came up with the > error "Couldn't extract the distributions..." Perhaps it's looking for > it in a different directory? > Did you place the files in C:\FREEBSD and are you sure you chose the right drive in sysinstall? > > Well, I hope this isn't overkill in information, but better more info > than not enough. I realize I could save myself a lot of hassle if I > bought the CDROM from Walnut Creek, but for now I think I'll stick with > the true meaning of FreeBSD. Thank you for your time. Mostly I just replied cause I wondered what the "true meaning of FreeBSD" is and why it prevents you from buying it from WC? > Regards, > John Hinsberger > johnh@mt.arias.net -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message