Date: Wed, 10 Apr 96 09:26:38 -0700 From: "Mark R. Simon" <m_simon@ix.netcom.com> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Root Disk Message-ID: <199604101325.GAA18629@dfw-ix9.ix.netcom.com>
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To whom it may concern,
It says to download the file root.flp if you are installing
from floppies. This file is only ~400K and I've tried the install
several times without success from booting directly from the hard
drive. When it says to insert the root disk, it reads drive A: and
then asks for the next floppy. But when I reboot the system, I choose
the Standard Boot Option, it seems to go okay, but when it goes to load
the kernel and give the | / | \ spiral effect, it doesnt. It just sits
on the | and locks up.
In the documentation, it says under "Before you install from
floppies" that the root.flp is a gzip'd cpio file. All the other
files *.flp do not mention anything about gzip'd. I just used rawrite
and it seems to work fine. But every *image* file I have ever seen
it 1.44Megs
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanx
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