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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!morgan.com!usenet From: "Geo.Ewing" <geeing@ms.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Help, Just started installing freebsd 2.0 Date: 1 May 1996 06:47:39 GMT Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co., New York, NY Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4m71eb$nmj@sanews1.morgan.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lntanc2.morgan.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3 sun4c) X-URL: news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc I have just started installing, created my bootdisk, setup my partitions, swaps etc, when I press (P) to proceed, I get the following error:- EXEC(/STAND/FSCK) FAILED, CODE=8. I dont get the option regarding CPIO floppy. Harddrive does not hold the boot. On bootup, it gives me option similar to;- F1 DOS F2 BSD F5 DISK 2 But on F1 works, does not recognise F2. Can anyone shed any light on my problems..........cheers