From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 10 11:12:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA01434 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:12:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.186.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA01419 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:12:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA00718; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:12:53 -0700 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:12:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Dan Ziegler cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960708044316.006854fc@postoffice.yorku.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Dan Ziegler wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD...everything was going smoothly 'til it began > to actually copy over the files. Here's my error, perhaps you can translate > it into something resembling english for me :) > > "Failed to load ROOT dist" (which seems relatively straightforward) Make sure the root.flp is in the correct location. I think it has to be on the top level \freebsd directory, not sure. (you're doing a dos install?) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major