Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 22:13:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Thomas R. Gillingham" <Gillingham@alliedcapital.com> Cc: "'questions@freeBSD.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HELP....!!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961029221243.369R-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=AlliedCapital%l=DOLLAR-961029203337Z-303@DOLLAR.AlliedCapital.com>
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On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Thomas R. Gillingham wrote: > I am a new user to FreeBSD and I am having a hard time installing it. I > get to the point (after answering all the questions for Novice Install) > and it asks me for another disk. Is this the 'can't find the ROOT distribution' error? > I don't have any disks to insert. I downloaded rawrite and boot.flp I > copied both of them to the C drive and typed rawrite and made a file > called boot.flp on a new floppy disk. > > I booted with that disk and started the novice install. > > What else do I need to download to get up and running. Well, assuming you don't have a network connection, all the system components you want. What install method are you using? 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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