From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 17 12:38:18 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA18680 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Dec 1995 12:38:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from parody.tecc.co.uk (parody.tecc.co.uk [193.128.6.83]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA18671 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 1995 12:38:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by parody.tecc.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA00492; Sun, 17 Dec 1995 17:35:55 GMT Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 17:35:54 +0000 () From: James Raynard To: Joop_Buis cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199512132135.WAA18302@mail.euronet.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, Joop_Buis wrote: > I have copied the complete CDrom to a \Freebsd directory on the first IDE drive. > I created the necessary file system on the second IDE drive and pushed COMMIT. The \freebsd directory must contain the same directory structure as on the FTP site, ie bin.?? files go in \freebsd\bin src.?? files go in \freebsd\src and so on > I keep on getting the message "Can't get the root immage will try to get it > from flopy" and of course getting it from floppy doesn't work either. Getting it from floppy should work as far as I know. What was the error message? I would double-check all the "obvious" things (did you download it in binary mode, did you use rawrite.exe to write it out, did someone switch the boot floppy and the root floppy when you weren't looking, etc). James Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'