From owner-freebsd-doc  Wed Apr 10 06:25:57 1996
Return-Path: owner-doc
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA04610
          for doc-outgoing; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 06:25:57 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from dfw-ix9.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix9.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.9])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA04604
          for <doc@freebsd.org>; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 06:25:55 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from m_simon.ix.netcom.com (ix-clv1-19.ix.netcom.com [199.183.197.51]) by dfw-ix9.ix.netcom.com (8.6.13/8.6.12) with SMTP id GAA18629 for <doc@freebsd.org>; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 06:25:55 -0700
Message-Id: <199604101325.GAA18629@dfw-ix9.ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 96 09:26:38 -0700
From: "Mark R. Simon" <m_simon@ix.netcom.com>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: doc@freebsd.org
Subject: Root Disk
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

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