From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 04:09:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA05950 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 04:09:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from cs.huji.ac.il (cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA05942 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 04:09:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mangal.cs.huji.ac.il by cs.huji.ac.il with SMTP id AA20026 (5.67b/HUJI 4.153 for ); Thu, 13 Feb 1997 14:07:36 +0200 From: Gil Eliraz Received: (from eliraz@localhost) by mangal.cs.huji.ac.il (8.7/1.1c) id OAA00782 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 14:07:40 +0200 (IST) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 14:07:40 +0200 (IST) Message-Id: <199702131207.OAA00782@mangal.cs.huji.ac.il> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: problems installing freebsd v2.1 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greetings, I have tried to install the freebsd in my PC and had some troubles. My PC is Pentium 166 with 1.7 Giga disk space. I used the FIPS utility to creat a new partition. And used the novice installation program to install it. when the installation started i received at first many errors messages that there is a write problem. I guess that there was somehow a write problem writing to disk. (but maybe it can be a reading error as well) - i tried to install the freebsd from dos partition and i put whatever was in the CD disk DIST library in c:\freebsd library. also, when trying to install it a second time i received the following error: "failed to load the ROOT distribution". can you help me with those problems, thanks in advance, gil eliraz (eliraz@cs.huji.ac.il)