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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!in1.uu.net!tcsi.tcs.com!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installation woes.. Date: 27 Aug 1995 16:22:58 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 15 Message-ID: <41q652$p3u@reason.cdrom.com> References: <41q4ma$riq@blackice.winternet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: jkodadek@winternet.com X-URL: news:41q4ma$riq@blackice.winternet.com jkodadek@winternet.com (J. Kodadek) wrote: >This is all beginning to get extrememly frustrating. I have the 2.0.5R >cd-rom, and copied what I want to install the c:\freebsd etc, the >floppies too. I can get through the whole installation menu fine, but >when it starts to install everything, it stops after a few seconds with >... >mountmsdosfs(): root directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in >length. Can you tell me a little more about the layout of your system? How big is this DOS partition, and what sort of drive/controller combination is it on? Jordan