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From: tns@tns.com.au
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Help, problems with installation.  Error reading bin.ay.
Date: 11 Feb 1996 05:31:28 GMT
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Hiyas,

In my forray into FreeBSD I have had some problems.

The major one is that when I get up to bin.ay (DOS Partition AND floppy installs)
the installer bombs out saying invalid media compression (taken from Alt-F2 
screen)

So I thought... must be a bad copy of bin.ay. So I downloaded it twice more (once
from the same site, and once from a different site) and twice it failed.

The sites I have tried are:

 ftp://ftp.physics.usyd.edu.au/FreeBSD

and
 
 ftp://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/FreeBSD


I am installing ver 2.1.0.

Can anyone shed some light, our tell me what I need to tell you to help me?

Regards and Salutations

Mikel Lindsaar