From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 23 00:06:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA00638 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:06:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA00488 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:06:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA12856; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:05:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:05:56 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "A. Rusmana" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Couldn't install FreeBsd In-Reply-To: <3515EE22.85DEC95B@melsa.net.id> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message