From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 10 19:14:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A71C416A4CE; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 19:14:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp02.syd.iprimus.net.au (smtp02.syd.iprimus.net.au [210.50.76.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 824A143D48; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 19:13:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jacob@rhoden.id.au) Received: from 225.c.002.mel.iprimus.net.au (203.134.135.225) by smtp02.syd.iprimus.net.au (7.0.020) id 3F8F522A01943B18; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:13:52 +1100 From: Jacob Rhoden To: Elsie Rae Bryan , jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:13:16 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <400044FA.69FE0B92@c-interactions.com> In-Reply-To: <400044FA.69FE0B92@c-interactions.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401111413.16504.jacob@rhoden.id.au> cc: re@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.1 Install Error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 03:14:00 -0000 On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:31, Elsie Rae Bryan wrote: > Re: /dist directory missing on 5.1 mfsroot disk > jacob, excuse my intrusion since I do not have any solutions. What I do > have is the exact same problem. I tried to move the CD files to the hard > disk and ended up with the same error for the hard drive. What has > happened with your efforts to resolve this error. Were you able to > install 5.1? Your the 5th person to email me directly about this problem. I wonder when someone will believe it is a real problem! (: Although I cannot solve the problem, I do have a solution for people with this problem. The problemoccurs when using an installation method which involves the installer "mounting" a set of files in the /dist directory. Any install method wich avoids this will work fine for you. This includes an ftp install, or booting directly off a cd (which I assume you cant which is why you have this problem). The ftp method also avoids mounting /dist. If you dont want to spend all that time downloading over ftp, find another computer and put ftpd on it, and copy onto the ftp server all of the files off the cd and network the two computers, then ftp install off the second computer. If you need anything clarfiied on how to do this let me know. Best Regards, Jacob