From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 22:13:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA05152 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 22:13:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA05147 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 22:13:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00606; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 22:13:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 22:13:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Thomas R. Gillingham" cc: "'questions@freeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: HELP....!!! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Thomas R. Gillingham wrote: > I am a new user to FreeBSD and I am having a hard time installing it. I > get to the point (after answering all the questions for Novice Install) > and it asks me for another disk. Is this the 'can't find the ROOT distribution' error? > I don't have any disks to insert. I downloaded rawrite and boot.flp I > copied both of them to the C drive and typed rawrite and made a file > called boot.flp on a new floppy disk. > > I booted with that disk and started the novice install. > > What else do I need to download to get up and running. Well, assuming you don't have a network connection, all the system components you want. What install method are you using? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major