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From: lou@xilinx.com (Lou Sanchez-Chopitea)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FreeBSD 2.1.5 floppy install problem
Date: 4 Dec 1996 21:35:42 GMT
Organization: Xilinx Inc.
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Message-ID: <584qre$q96@mailman.xilinx>
NNTP-Posting-Host: hobbes.xilinx
Hi,
I'm having a problem installing FreeBSD 2.1.5 from floppies. I have a
486DX-40 system 8MB RAM 2 SCSI drives (80MB, 87MB) Adaptec AHA-1522 3Com 3c503
MDA/Hercules.
I made the install floppy and used novice install, used defaults for dedicated
disk geometry, and it complains about not enough space for /var(?) partition,
but I plow on, it requests the next floppy and gives me:
Couldn't extract the following distributions. This may be because they
were not available on the installation media you've chosen:
bin
when I hit <CR>. The floppy has bin.aa through bin.af in the A:\bin directory.
Am I doing something wrong? Should I try to create the floppy again?
Do I have the disks partitioned wrong? Have reproduced this twice, once with
NIC, once without (I need everything else to boot). Any ideas? TIA.
Cheers
Lou
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