From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 5 21:57:11 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id VAA24863 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Aug 1995 21:57:11 -0700 Received: from maggie.cs.mcgill.ca (maggie.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.51.242]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA24857 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 1995 21:57:08 -0700 Received: (from sarrazip@localhost) by maggie.cs.mcgill.ca (8.6.10/8.6.9) id AAA17076; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 00:57:02 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 00:57:02 -0400 From: Pierre Sarrazin Message-Id: <199508060457.AAA17076@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with 2.0.5-RELEASE installation Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I'm engaged in a little guessing game with the "user-friendly" installation procedure for 2.0.5-RELEASE. I'm doing an installation from my DOS partition. The installation program says at one point "Failed to load the ROOT distribution. Please correct this problem and try again." The first 60 megs of my disk is my DOS partition. The next 32 megs are FreeBSD's swap space. The remaining 233 megs is the / partition (I prefer to have / and /usr in the same file system) and is to be newfs'd. I've placed the bin.?? files in c:\freebsd\bin and root.flp is in c:\freebsd\floppies. I have used rawrite3.exe to write root.flp on a 1.2M floppy (my A: is a 1.2M). I've tried to get the installation program to read this floppy; that doesn't seem to be the answer. I've put the file on a 1.44M DOS disk in B: and told the program to look on fd1; that didn't work. The problem is that I only see that there is an error but I don't see how it happens and I don't know what the program expects. Before version 2.0, the installation procedure was less "user-friendly" and not menu-oriented and I had much less problems... Pierre Sarrazin [Montreal]