Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 23:03:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Christopher P Lund <clund@sdphu3.ucsd.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: An installation question Message-ID: <Pine.3.03.9508152203.A1493-b100000@sdphu3>
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I hate to be a bother on what is likely a straightforward question, but I
am at wits end on this matter. I am relatively new to UNIX systems and
completely new to FreeBSD. I want to install FreeBSD on a second
partition on my hard drive (1 Gig WD drive, Pentium-90 system). I got the
bin files and the floppies files for release 2.0.5. I put the bin files in
c:\freebsd\bin (I also tried c:\freebsd, I wasn't clear on the matter), the
floppies files in c:\freebsd\floppies, and used rawrite to put boot.flp on
a floppy disk. I booted from the disk, used the setup program to create the
partition, setup slices, chose the "User" install, "DOS Partition" media, and
committed. Everything appeared to be going fine when I got the message
"Failed to load the ROOT distribution.
Please correct this problem and try again."
My only other clue as to what was going on was when I tried to quit. My
understanding of root.flp is that it is a gzipped file. From what I could
decipher on the screen, it appears that a problem occured in attempting to
unpack this file.
Like I said at the beginning, I hate to be a bother on this matter. I
looked through the various FAQs and notes and, failing to find an answer,
this seemed to be the best place to write.
Help would be appreciated. Thank you.
- Christopher Lund
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