From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 15 23:03:56 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA09573 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 23:03:56 -0700 Received: from sdphu3.ucsd.edu (sdphu3.ucsd.edu [132.239.69.24]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA09565 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 23:03:53 -0700 Received: by sdphu3.ucsd.edu (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA01503; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 23:04:05 -0700 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 23:03:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Christopher P Lund Reply-To: Christopher P Lund Subject: An installation question To: questions@FreeBSD.org Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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