From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 20:30:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA11131 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 20:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.intuit.com (fw.intuit.com [199.2.32.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA11090 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 20:30:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by gw.intuit.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15150; Thu, 10 Oct 96 20:27:23 PDT Received: from unknown(172.17.2.217) by gw.intuit.com via smap (V1.3) id sma015100; Thu Oct 10 20:26:33 1996 Message-Id: <325DBEB8.6816@radfx.com> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 20:27:53 -0700 From: Arlo Ihrig Reply-To: waldo@radfx.com Organization: Rad FX(tm) Web Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with DOS install Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ok, I don't have the CDROM, so I downloaded the ENTIRE freebsd 2.1.5 directory (I got plenty o space, and fast t3 connection) So... I booted off the install floppy, mounted the dos drive, configured all the options, and it couldn't find ANY of the packages I selected - but it did install the bare bones system. It seems to me that the sysinstall prog is looking for files in certain directories (which I can't seem to find any EXACT info on) and just bombs out. I'd think the sysinstall would be smart enough to ask for directory if it couldn't find the right directory. Anyone have any ideas? So far (besides this "little" problem) I love FreeBSD and really want to check it out. Thanks all! Please send replies to waldo@radfx.com http://www.radfx.com