5.1 mfsroot floppy broken?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Oct 23 19:27:27 PDT 2003


On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:24:25AM +1000, JacobRhoden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been trying to get an install of 5.1 using the floppies made off the 
> 5.1 ISO, and it seems they are broken. Has anyone else successfully achieved 
> an install using the boot disks?
> 
> Regards
>  - Jacob
> 
> Further Details:
>   After booting, custom install, and then selecting cdrom/dos
>   partion/floppies as the media, you receive the following error:
> 
>   Error mounting /dev/xxx on /dist: No such file for directory (2)
>  
>   (Just replace xxx with the media you have selected)

I've seen something like this as well../dist didn't exist in the MFS
root, but I think /mnt did.  I wasn't sure if it was my fault somehow,
so I didn't follow it up.  This was probably with the 5.1-RELEASE
fixit CD, which is the only install media I've used in the past few
months.

Kris
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