From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Dec 8 12:29:42 1995 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA17970 for doc-outgoing; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 12:29:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA17957 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 12:29:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jfieber@localhost) by fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA28061; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 15:29:32 -0500 Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 15:29:31 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu To: Darin Lee cc: "'doc@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: FREEBSD Installation In-Reply-To: <01BAC566.CA0A03E0@pm008-00.dialip.mich.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Darin Lee wrote: > dierctories were the correct size. I then copied the installation files > (ie. FREEBSD\DISTS\BIN) to my C:\FREEBSD directory, as outlined in the > instructions. I did this for all of the files I wished to install, by the ... > FREEBSD began installation but hung with an error of "cannot create the > ROOT image" or something to that extent. I tried this several times and do you have a c:\freebsd\floppies\root.flp? If you do, write down *exactly* what the error message is. It could also be a geometry translation problem. > from a DOS partition? Is it possible that the *.flp images need to be "raw" > copied onto my installation (source) hard dive? If so rawrite won't do it, Nope. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============