Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 19:54:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Sridhar Krishnan <skrishna@cisco.com> To: questions@freebsd.org, support@cdrom.com Subject: [Problem] FreeBSD Install from DOS partition (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960623194438.6050B-100000@lint.cisco.com>
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Friends of BSD, Since my IDE CD-ROM is not being recognized by 2.1, I started installation from the MS-DOS partition. I copied DISTS\BIN and DISTS\FLOPPIES into C:\FREEBSD directory. I started the install.bat. I am dedicating about 1 Gig of my second IDE drive to freebsd. It starts ate sector 0. In the final steps of Install, it gives the following message: Loading root image from ... Failed to load the ROOT distribution. Please correct the problem & try again. I could not find any refernce this problem in the Running FreeBSD book. Other questions: I tried different combinations of MBR (Booteasy, Standard and None). There is a confusing message when it prompts to choose MBR - it says "PC-DOS users NOT select one!". Should be "none" or option 1. Does Snap Shot 2.2 provide better support for IDE CD-ROMs ? Please help. Sridhar Krishnan
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