Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 12:56:45 -0800 From: Joe Blackwell <jblackwe@mipos2.intel.com> To: support@cdrom.com, questions@freebsd.org Cc: jblackwe@mipos2.intel.com Subject: Problems installing FreeBSD 2.1 Jan. '96 release... Message-ID: <199601112056.MAA04971@zws002.sc.intel.com>
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Help?! I have hit a roadblock in my attempts to install FreeBSD on my nice shiny new Pentium system. If anyone has any ideas/comments/solutions to share, I would be extremely grateful. My system is a P133, Adaptec 2940, Conner 1.06GB, 16 MB unit with a CDROM which is not supported by FreeBSD (should not be a problem). I have Windows 95 installed in the first partition and I am attempting to install FreeBSD into the second partition (~517MB). The instalation process goes exactly as documented until it fails. The boot floppy works correctly. The disk is recognized with the proper geometry. The second parttion get intialized properly as a freebsd partition and the boot manager is installed correctly as well. I am able to slice the new parition and all the slices are newfs'd properly when that moment arrives. I am able to select the subsets I want to install (including bin of course). Since my CDROM is unsupported, I have copied all of the distribution sets into my DOS parition under c:\freebsd and I have copied the floppies directory as well. Everything is as it should be until the program tries to load the first subset from the DOS partition. At this point there is no further disk access and a message box pops up sayng that it wwas unable to copy the root files from the selected distribuion. That's it. there is no more information available. I would really like to get this up. I am wondering if ther might be some issue with a partitioned Windows 95 disk and it's dos parition?? Thanks in advance for any help or thoughts, Joe B.
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