Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 11:17:42 -0500 From: "Tim M. Kelley" <tkelley@cy.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2.1 install problem (failed to load ROOT distribution) Message-ID: <199601121717.MAA09987@cy.com>
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I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 (on CD from Walnut Creek). Unfortunately,
I have an IDE CDROM drive, and the installation software isn't recognizing
my CD. (I've got 2 IDE drives, one IDE CD configured as master on secondary
IDE ribbon).
Since the installation isn't recognizing my CD, I've attempted to install
from a DOS partition. Here's how I set up the DOS partition:
XCOPY /S E:\DISTS C:\FREEBSD
XCOPY /S E:\FLOPPIES C:\FREEBSD\FLOPPIES
I've set aside my second IDE drive for use solely for FreeBSD.
The installation starts to do its thing, until I get the following message box:
Failed to load the ROOT distribution. Please correct this problem
and try again.
I switch to the second (debug) screen, and see the following:
...
stand/df
stand/cat
stand/ls
gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data - format violated
/stand/cpio: premature end of file
DEBUG: cpio returned error status of 1!
Debug: Dummy [default] close called for wd0s1 with fd of 7.
Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Anyone out there have any
suggestions?
Here's my configuration:
Pentium 70 Mhz, 32 MB
IDE drive 1: 1202 Mb (DOS) wd0
IDE drive 2: 202Mb (FreeBSD) wd1
CDROM IDE drive wc1 (not fully recognized on inst. boot)
Tim Kelley
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