Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 22:55:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Paul DuBois <dubois@primate.wisc.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: sraher@rainbow.rmii.com Subject: Re: I am truely stuck... Message-ID: <199608270355.WAA25422@night.primate.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960826195602.219I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Aug 26, 96 07:56:58 pm
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> >> 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. Yes, you need to do: C> XCOPY /s E:\FLOPPIES C:\FREEBSD\FLOPPIES where E: is your CD-ROM drive letter and C: is your installation MS-DOS partition drive letter (substitute as necessary). (This is from section 2.1 of my CD-ROM liner notes.)
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