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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!160.45.4.4!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: help: burning own CD for install? Date: 2 Feb 1997 22:07:46 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 47 Message-ID: <5d337i$eir@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32F20EA2.2E00@worldnet.att.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34959 pete lega <pete.lega@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > burned it onto a cd. During install, > I select "CDROM" install, and finally > when it attempts to extract the files, > it tells me that it doesn't appear > to be a walnut creek cd and it can't > find the version info. ug, no install. ;-) Well, according to Jordan, too many people called up Walnut Creek's tech support where it turned out that they were trying to install a Win95 CD, or maybe even an audio CD. :-O So Jordan placed additional files onto the CD image which server as an indication that it's really a FreeBSD CD. I think you've already got the various .inf files in the subdirs? They list all the files that belong to a particular distribution (e.g. bin/bin.inf). You need them. In addition to the FTP distribution, the CD-ROM distribution has the following files in the root dir of the CD: kernel fbsdboot.exe # you probably don't need this cdrom.inf # that's the culprit This latter file contains just: CD_VERSION = 2.1.6-RELEASE (or whatever release you're installing). I think you could get away without it. Try setting your installation version in the options screen to "none". Also, the CD-ROM doesn't need subdirs. Well, thinking about it, try to set that option to "freebsd" then. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)