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Date:      Mon, 31 May 1999 19:21:27 +1200
From:      "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz>
To:        l_x@263.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problem for install
Message-ID:  <19990531072351.XXFO7623210.mta2-rme@wocker>
In-Reply-To: <19990530220815.407C214E5A@hub.freebsd.org>

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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".
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