From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 23 19:54:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA15967 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Jun 1996 19:54:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lint.cisco.com (lint.cisco.com [171.68.223.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA15962 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 1996 19:54:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (skrishna@localhost) by lint.cisco.com (8.6.10/CISCO.SERVER.1.1) id TAA06765; Sun, 23 Jun 1996 19:54:31 -0700 Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 19:54:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Sridhar Krishnan To: questions@freebsd.org, support@cdrom.com Subject: [Problem] FreeBSD Install from DOS partition (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Friends of BSD, Since my IDE CD-ROM is not being recognized by 2.1, I started installation from the MS-DOS partition. I copied DISTS\BIN and DISTS\FLOPPIES into C:\FREEBSD directory. I started the install.bat. I am dedicating about 1 Gig of my second IDE drive to freebsd. It starts ate sector 0. In the final steps of Install, it gives the following message: Loading root image from ... Failed to load the ROOT distribution. Please correct the problem & try again. I could not find any refernce this problem in the Running FreeBSD book. Other questions: I tried different combinations of MBR (Booteasy, Standard and None). There is a confusing message when it prompts to choose MBR - it says "PC-DOS users NOT select one!". Should be "none" or option 1. Does Snap Shot 2.2 provide better support for IDE CD-ROMs ? Please help. Sridhar Krishnan