Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 19:56:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Stephen Raher <sraher@rainbow.rmii.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I am truely stuck... Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960826195602.219I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.93.960825220215.11703A-100000@rainbow.rmii.com>
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On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Stephen Raher wrote: > Since I have an unsupported CDROM, I have followed the directions and used > xcopy to move the floppies directory, and dists\bin and dists\manpages > directories from the cdrom to a DOS partition..installation goes OK until > I get a message saying: > Failed to load the ROOT distribution. Please correct this problem > and try again. > However, it does not say HOW to correct the problem, and I am very > confused. You need to put root.flp somewhere where sysinstall expects it. I think it wants in \freebsd and possibly \freebsd\floppies. Don't forget the distributions need to be under \freebsd too: \freebsd\bin \freebsd\manpages .... 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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