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From: lou@xilinx.com (Lou Sanchez-Chopitea)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc
Subject: Help installing bin distribution
Date: 6 Dec 1996 19:02:23 GMT
Organization: Xilinx Inc.
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Message-ID: <589qjv$n34@mailman.xilinx>
NNTP-Posting-Host: hobbes.xilinx


Hi,
    I'm having trouble doing a minimum install of FreeBSD 2.1.5 on a generic
clone SCSI. I've gotten the fdisk and disklabel to not complain but it still
can't fin the distribution on the floppy. The debug messages say:

DEBUG: Request for /dist/bin/bin.tgz from floppy on /dist, probe is 1.

and then for bin.inf and repest again, but what I've got in the bin directory
is bin.aa-bin.af. Am I missing files? I've tried on a different floppy,
same result. I found the .inf file on the ftp site, but not the .tgz. I've
printed the whole hadbook, looked at the README, install notes, help in the
menu system, but no joy. Am out of ideas.
    
    Any help or pointers to more info appreciated.

    	    	    	    	    Cheers

    	    	    	    	    	    Lou

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