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From: rdd@access5.digex.net (R. D. Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem installing freebsd 2.1.7
Date: 15 Mar 1997 02:00:17 -0500
Organization: Society for the Obsolescence of Obsolescence
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Message-ID: <5gdhe1$pm8@access5.digex.net>
References: <33285A05.4C42@eit.com> <5ga1h6$e0b$1@otis.netspace.net.au>
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In article <5ga1h6$e0b$1@otis.netspace.net.au>,
Michael Streeter <streeter@netspace.net.au> wrote:
>In article <33285A05.4C42@eit.com>, Sreenath Battalahalli
><sreenath@eit.com> wrote:
>>I down loaded all files from bin directory to floppies, as well as boot
>>floppy. I created the partitions required and started installing. The
>>message comes up saying that the distribution media I have chosen does
>>not possibly have the bin stuff.
[...]
>I had exactly the same problems with a floppy install and eventually gave up
>and did an FTP install.
[...]
>Does anybody have any ideas?
When I installed 2.1.6 on a different machine, placing all of the file
in direcctories such as c:\freebsd\bin\bin.aa, etc., I had no problems
whatsoever. However, with 2.1.7, I can't get this to install from
floppies or a hard drive, and don't see what I'm doing any differently
than before when it worked for 2.1.6. Hopefully someone will post
some information about what we're doing wrong.
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