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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PROBLEM WITH INSTALL FROM DOS PARTITION
Date: 9 Aug 1995 10:11:37 +0200
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Chris Augustine <chris@miller.cs.uwm.edu> wrote:
> I am trying to install freebsd 2.0.5 from dos partition,(because freebsd
>does not support IDE CDROM) and I am getting an error that the install can
>not find the root image. In the dos partition(300MB) I have c:\freebsd
>but I did not make a separate /floppies directory under that, because the
>docs did not specify to do that. Will that solve my problem?
It will. You only need to put the `root.flp' file there.
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cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)