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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
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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