5.0-RELEASE installation failure

Terry Lambert tlambert2 at mindspring.com
Fri Apr 11 09:01:39 PDT 2003


Sven Hazejager wrote:
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE from a CD that was burned using
> the miniinst.iso file. Installation seems to run fine, but after
> installing the base files, it bombs out with the error "Unable to fetch
> packages/INDEX" or something, afterwards the installation is aborting
> completely!
> 
> How do I circumvent this annoying error? I don't need the packages!

Don't tell it to install any.  This is probably "perl".

-- Terry


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