From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Mar 20 09:30:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA18513 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:30:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from Fe3.rust.net (Fe3.rust.net [204.157.12.254]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA18502 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:30:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from home (liv-2.rust.net [206.42.195.102]) by Fe3.rust.net (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA17997 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:31:01 -0500 (EDT) Message-ID: <31504173.6ABD@aol2.com> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:33:39 -0500 From: Neil Organization: Almighty Online X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0GoldB1 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Installing from DOS. X-URL: http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook17.html#19 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a 1.2 GIG Maxtor HD.. it is partitioned: 1 - DOS/(Win95) - on it C:\FREEBSD \bin (with all bins) \dict \compat (1x and 20) \floppies \manpages \packages I make a boot disk, partition a large FreeBSD set.. do the auto maker (with the disklabel editor). so it looks like this: Part Mount Size Newfs ---- ----- ---- ----- wd0s1 226MB DOS wd0s2a / 32MB UFS Y wd0s2b 107MB SWAP wd0s2e /var 30MB UFS Y wd0s2f /usr 827MB UFS Y then it says.. Loading root image from: wd0s1 then it says.. Failed to load the ROOT distribution. Please correct this problem and try again. --- I don't know how to correct this problem. Should I copy the C:\FREEBSD directory to my ROOT directory instead? I am stumped! Thanks, Neil mailto:neil@aol2.com phone:(810) 442-9046