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Date:      Sun, 19 Sep 1999 15:03:17 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        "Robert M. Layson" <snoozebunny@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: install - newbie
Message-ID:  <19990919150317.N3566@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <19990918145709.13368.rocketmail@web904.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <19990918145709.13368.rocketmail@web904.mail.yahoo.com>

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* Robert M. Layson (snoozebunny@yahoo.com) [990918 17:38]:
>    I recently downloaded the 3.3 release and I am
>unable to install it.  I made it though 
>the config-menu process, but when the system boots it
>is unable to mount the root 
>directory.  the error message is:
>
>    error 6: panic: cannot mount root (2)

Please see if this answers your question:

http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/install.html#AEN683

I am particulary confident about #2 on that page.

HTH,

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai                  asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
Network/Security Specialist        BSD: Technical excellence at its best
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