Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:52:39 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ken Mason <KMASON@MAIL.NYSED.GOV> Cc: questions@freeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 2.1.6 Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961218235120.258H-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <s2b81b66.058@MAIL.NYSED.GOV>
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On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Ken Mason wrote: > I am attempting to install FreeBSD 2.1.6 an am encountering the following > problem: After the installation reads the bin floppies I get the message > "Couldn't extract the following distributions. This maybe because they > were not on the installation media chosen: doc manpages dict This is a bit nutty. Try putting the .inf file for the next distribution on the last disk of the previous distribution, or try putting all the .inf's on one disk. This is a goofy part of the 2.1.6 install that isn't well documented, unfortunately. > After the install, I re-booted and used sysinstall in an attempt to install the > doc disks. I the got the message "Unable to get packages/INDEX from > selected media". Use the 'pkg_add' command instead of sysinstall. 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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