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Date:      Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:05:56 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "A. Rusmana" <rusmana@melsa.net.id>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Couldn't install FreeBsd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980323000520.12642n-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3515EE22.85DEC95B@melsa.net.id>

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On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, A. Rusmana wrote:

> Hi....
> I have a problem when installing the FreeBsd.
> I have a IDE CDROM drive, but when I installing the FreeBSD I always got
> message :
> "Failed to load the ROOT distribution. Please correct this problem and
> try again"
> I has been try to correct this problem, but it's still.

What version of FreeBSD are you trying to install?  This is 2.1.0 days if
I'm getting it right!  :-/

> And I try install FreeBSD from DOS Partision.
> Before installing from DOS Partision, I do something like this :
> C>MD C:\FREEBSD
> C>xcopy /s D:\DISTS\BIN C:\FREEBSD\BIN
> C>xcopy /s D:FLOPPIES C:\FREEBSD\FLOPPIES
> 
> but it always stop when Installing the program with the message :
> "Write failur on transfer !"
> and then...
> "Unable to transfer the xxxx distribution from wd0s1"
> and then...
> "Failed to retreive piece file xxx/xxx.xxx!
> and the...
> "Coldn't extract all of the distributions. This may be because the
> following distributions are
> not available on the installation media you've chosen".

Looks OK.

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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