From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 10 22:04:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA14912 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 22:04:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from bureau-de-poste.utcc.utoronto.ca (bureau-de-poste.utcc.utoronto.ca [128.100.100.123]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA14905 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 22:04:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from muahost ([128.100.83.153]) by bureau-de-poste.utcc.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <797343(2)>; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 01:04:05 -0500 Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 04:18:24 -0500 From: Sam Musallam Subject: install To: berkely sd Message-ID: Priority: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dear FreeBSD I am new to the BSD and to UNIX and am having problems with installing BSD 4.4! 1) It keeps telling me it can't find the root file (even though I've included the floppies directory). I'm installing from a DOS partition. 2) I am installing it on a 1GIG drive. Is it possible that BSD leaves my DOS partition intact while it is intalling. (Everytime it fails, I have to go back and reformat my drive). Thank you Sam s.musallam@utoronto.ca