From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 9 10:34:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA14736 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:34:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA14730 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:34:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA03142; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:34:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:34:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Daimler Benz cc: support@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation of Freebsd from a DOS partition In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19970928161647.10273c08@giasbg01.vsnl.net.in> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I think I meant to answer this but never got around to it. On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Daimler Benz wrote: > I am trying to install Freebsd on my computer.I have partitioned the hard > disk into two partitions, using FIPS. One of these I did a format /s on, to > be able to boot into DOS. I am unable to load Freebsd from the CDROM since > it is not being detected.(I think the reason could be that it is a 12x ATAPI > IDE CDROM ).I have the dos drivers for the CD, and copied the contents of > the whole CD onto a directory on the DOS partition called Freebsd. I then > tried loading bsd from the DOS partition, but it says : > > Write failed ( -1 bytes copied of 1024 ) > > What do I do?? Hit ALT-F2 and report what you see when you get this message. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major