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From: Matt Sturgeon <matt@sturgeon.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FTP Install Fails with "Couldn't extract distribution" - Please Help
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 01:11:30 -0800
Organization: MS Technologies
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I tried to install FreeBSD over the network using the FTP media type.
The lights on my pipeline blink and after a minute I get the following
error message:
Couldn't extract the following distributions. This may be
because they were not available on the installation
media you've choosen:
bin doc manpages
I tried using all of the ftp servers at ftp.freebsd.org. I also tried
selecting different distributions including the minimum.
Has anyone encountered this problem before or know how to fix it?
Thanks in advance.