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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
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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. ;-)