From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 22:55:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA12170 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:55:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA12165 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:55:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00700; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:54:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:54:45 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Gil Eliraz cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: problems installing freebsd v2.1 In-Reply-To: <199702131207.OAA00782@mangal.cs.huji.ac.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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