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Date:      Sun, 20 Apr 1997 23:44:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Joel Mosher <belgarion@vt.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: More installation help for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970420234346.21515U-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199704141930.PAA28502@sable.cc.vt.edu>

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On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Joel Mosher wrote:

> Okay, I've followed the previous information on copying the dists to my dos
> partition.  Only problem is, I keep getting an error message that says 
> "unable to transfer the bin distribution from wdOs1."  
> Now, I know for sure that the Bin directory is copied to a Freebsd folder on
> my dos partition on  the hard drive.  What else might I be doing wrong?  I
> have almost every distribution copied to the partition as well, so I can't
> be missing anything.  The problem occurs for all installation options,
> MInimal, User, whichever I choose.  Please help.  Thanks.

Press ALT-F2 and tell me what you see when you get the 'Unable..' message.

The .inf files and the directory heirarchy are often forgotten.  Also,
this must be done from drive c:, a primary DOS partition.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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