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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet From: Vlad <roubtsov@uiuc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CDROM Installation Probs. Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 13:01:32 -0500 Organization: Baphomet's Throne Lines: 19 Message-ID: <335E4E7C.41C67EA6@uiuc.edu> References: <5jbmfa$50r$1@news.inc.net> <5ji6o8$jsu@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> <335E585E.2341@cnetusa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cfc2.mrl.uiuc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39612 Chris wrote: > > Brian, > > I'm kind of new to this myself. I have a 2.1 FreeBSD CD from Walnut > Creek. I didn't have the start up disk to install the CD. However, I > went to www.freebsd.org to download the image file to copy on the floppy > to create a startup disk. Now, as I enter the installation menu. > Everything is fine, except when it reaches the copying of files to the > hard drive. The installation tells me that it is unable to copy the > distribution files to the hard disk, since it is not a 2.1.5 version or > earlier. What gives? Shouldn't the image file compatible for all > version? If not, where can I get my hands on one? Any ideas would be > appreciated. Thanks. You got the "boot.flp" image for v2.1, didn't you? If not, it wouldn't be too hard to get the correct image and try again. Vlad.