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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Lamine Sano <sanol@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Root distribution
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On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Lamine Sano wrote:

> I get the following message after freebsd is trying to create the root 
> filesystem:
> Failed to load the root distribution.
> What's going on and what is the remedy ?

What version of FreeBSD are you installing on?  Via what method?
Details....

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major