Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:54:45 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Gil Eliraz <eliraz@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: problems installing freebsd v2.1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970213225355.612S-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199702131207.OAA00782@mangal.cs.huji.ac.il>
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On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Gil Eliraz wrote: > I have tried to install the freebsd in my PC and had > some troubles. > > My PC is Pentium 166 with 1.7 Giga disk space. I would really, really recommend installing something newer if you can. 2.1 is ancient. 2.1.7 and 2.2 should be out very shortly. > I used the FIPS utility to creat a new partition. And used the > novice installation program to install it. > when the installation started i received at first many > errors messages that there is a write problem. I guess > that there was somehow a write problem writing to disk. > (but maybe it can be a reading error as well) - > i tried to install the freebsd from dos partition > and i put whatever was in the CD disk DIST library in > c:\freebsd library. > > also, when trying to install it a second time i received the > following error: > "failed to load the ROOT distribution". Put root.flp in \freebsd\floppies or in the top of \freebsd, I can't remember which. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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