From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 28 17:23:14 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23874 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:23:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cerberos.nswcc.org.au (cerberos.nswcc.org.au [203.9.71.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA23861 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:23:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davids@nswcc.org.au) Received: (from mail@localhost) by cerberos.nswcc.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA20627 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 12:23:07 +1100 Received: from pluto.nswcc.org.au(203.9.70.1) by cerberos.nswcc.org.au via smap (V1.3) id sma020610; Fri Jan 29 12:22:51 1999 Received: from davids (davids.nswcc.org.au [203.9.68.228]) by moredun.nswcc.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA05848 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 12:22:51 +1100 From: david schanzer Reply-To: To: Subject: Problem during floppy installation from 2.0 to 2.2.8: "Couldn't extract the following distributions. This may be because they were not available on the installation media you've chosen" Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 12:18:44 +1100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am attempting to upgrade 3 old FreeBSD boxes from v2.0 to v2.2.8, and I have to use a floppy installation in the absence of any other hardware and the presence of a firewall. I have carefully read all of the available documentation, but I can't find any mention of the problem I'm experiencing. Having booted from the Installation Boot Floppy, selected "Upgrade" and "Floppy Installation", I get the message "Couldn't extract the following distributions. This may be because they were not available on the installation media you've chosen" when I insert the first floppy of the BIN distribution. I'm trying to install the BIN and MANPAGES distributions. The first time I tried this, I was using DOS-formatted floppies and on which DOS COPY had been used to copy the files, 5 to a disk, with the "bin.inf" file on the first floppy. When I got the above message, I tried Plan B: I re-formatted all of the diskettes as UFS using: fdformat -f 1440 fd0.1440 disklabel -r -w fd0.1440 fd1440 newfs fd0.1440 mount /dev/fd0.1440 /floppy and then copying 5 to a disk, with "bin.inf" again on the first floppy. This gave identical results, ie. the same error message at the point in the installation procedure where the first diskette of the distribution needs to be inserted. The light on the diskette drive goes on for a few seconds before the error message is given, so it is obviously looking on the correct device. Since they are UFS diskettes, I didn't know whether they had to be somehow mounted before being used. I would appreciate any help or advice you can give, as I'm basically stumped at this point about how to upgrade these machines. Please reply to: davids@nswcc.org.au Thanks for any help you can give! David Schanzer NSW Cancer Council Sydney, Australia. ''' (0 0) +-----oOO----(_)--------------+ | David Schanzer | | NSW Cancer Council | | Tel: (02) 9334-1832 | | Fax: (02) 9334-1741 | | Email: davids@nswcc.org.au | +--------------------oOO------+ |__|__| || || ooO Ooo "The information contained in this message is intended for the named addressee only, and is confidential to the sender and intended recipient. If you are not the named addressee please do not copy, distribute, take any action reliant on, or disclose anything in this E-mail message to any other person or organisation. If you have received this message in error please notify me immediately." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message