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Subject: Re: root.flp
To: ivy1@pop.erols.com (Bob Sinclair)
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 16:14:54 +0000 ()
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> 
> I am trying to install 2.1.5 RELEASE, but cannot find root.flp that the
> install demands (install from floppies and install from DOS partition). I
> have downloaded bin.aa etc into a dos FREEBSD\BIN directory, used rawrite to
> make a boot disk, partitioned my disk, etc.  Isn't there a root.flp on the
> server as there is a boot.flp? Can you tell me the precise subdirectory? Thanks!

root.flp is no more - it's been replaced by a separate .inf file for
each distribution (presumably it's trying to load root.flp as a fallback
for not being able to find bin.inf.

If you add bin.inf to your FREEBSD\BIN directory, that should sort it out.