ftp install / base not found

[Johan Nilsson]

The lable doesn't exist on the mirrors anymore.

Try either to get new installdisks or go into install parameters in
sysinstall and change the lable to an existing one.

Regards,
Johan


On 5/11/06, Mike Hunter <mhunter at ack.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear FreeBSD Questions,
>
> I have a not-so-new laptop that I tried to install FBSD on yesterday.
> This laptop can only be made to boot from floppies (usb boot doesn't work,
> no cdrom) and I happen to have some 5.3-RELEASE boot floppies laying
> around.
>
> I am successfully able to get into the installer, format the disk, create
> new FS's, DHCP, select the "Minimal" distribution and try the FTP install.
> But, no matter what I do, the ftp servers never have the distribution.  I
> tried several, including ftp.freebsd.org.
>
> I have had this problem repeatedly over the years, always with older
> distributions.  The error message says that I can go to the Options menu
> and change my distribution to "any", but that never works either.
>
> What's the story?  Do older bases get removed from the ftp servers, or is
> there a different string I should be using in options (I tried
> 5.3-STABLE), or am I missing something?  Please don't make me create new
> boot floopies!  :)
>
> Signed,
>
> befuddled @ Berkeley
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