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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.cisco.com!lint.cisco.com!skrishna From: Sridhar Krishnan <skrishna@cisco.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem installing from IDE CD-ROM Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 15:01:50 -0700 Organization: cisco Systems, Incorporated Lines: 24 Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960623145220.12280A-100000@lint.cisco.com> References: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960622172946.830B-100000@lint.cisco.com> <4qk81p$9hc@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lint.cisco.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4qk81p$9hc@uriah.heep.sax.de> On 23 Jun 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > Sridhar Krishnan <skrishna@cisco.com> wrote: > > > when I try to boot of the floppy that I created, the system tries with no > > messages and switches to C: drive and boots Win95. > > You have to enable booting off drive A: first in your system BIOS. > Otherwise, you will never be able to bootstrap FreeBSD. (You can > disable this later if you don't need it.) > Trust me. I have the BIOS set to boot from A: and then C:. I tested if the system can boot off floppy using DOS 7 (win95) boot diskette - that was okay. I cannot seem to pin-point the problem booting from the floppy. I have gotten further along ... Next, I tried to install from the DOS after copying 'dists' files. I got the idea from another posting by phillip@rmit.edu.au. The install worked until the Install Packages screen. Even though I copied dists\bin and dists\floppy into c:\freebsd, my minimal install fails with a message 'Cannot find ROOT'. Sri