From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 31 0:21:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C73DF14D30 for ; Mon, 31 May 1999 00:21:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.75]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990531072351.XXFO7623210.mta2-rme@wocker>; Mon, 31 May 1999 19:23:51 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: l_x@263.net Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 19:21:27 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: problem for install Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <19990530220815.407C214E5A@hub.freebsd.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990531072351.XXFO7623210.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I've CC'd my answer to the questions mailing list. The newbies list doesn't deal with technical questions. On 31 May 99, at 6:05, liuxin wrote: > I've got a free-bsd live filesystem CD, > the content of cd-rom.inf is 'CD_VERSION = 2.2.5-RELEASE'. > My machine support cd-rom boot and it does booted up. > Hardwares had been detected correctly,and new filesystem > created succesfully.but then I got a error message > says that 'couldn't extract the distributions : bin'. > I've tried various methods,install from cd-rom,from > existing fielsystem,upgrade,etc.All seems goes ok from > beginning but then ended at the error message. > So what could I do with that cd?Thanks in advance. I think you are using the wrong CD. You should be using the 1st CD in the set. It might be labelled "Installation Boot CD". -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message