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From: flavio xavier martins <fxm@engin.umich.edu>
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Subject: FreeBSD installation
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I just recently bought a CD-Rom version of FreeBSD2.1 and I am having 
problems installing it.

I had to use the fips utility to create a freebsd partition of 120MB. I 
wish to install the x-user distribution, and I have to install it from a 
dos partition since my CD-Rom is unsupported. I have copied the 
\dists\bin, \dists\floppies, and \dists\xf86312 to the dos partition. I 
keep getting a "Failed to install root distribution" message. Do I neet 
to copy more dists to my dos partition, or is the problem something else?

Thanks,

Flavio Martins
fxm@engin.umich.edu