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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.conterra.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!nntp.crl.com!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Please help: install problem-> 2.1.0-R Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 15:28:36 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 19 Message-ID: <31EC1794.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <1996Jul14.173951.82750@cc.usu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Tami Bennett <slrbd@mendon.declab.usu.edu> Tami Bennett wrote: > Failed to load the ROOT distribution. Please correct this problem and > try again. Check the second screen - do you see an I/O error or do you see a "file not found" sort of error? If it's the latter, then perhaps you simply made an error in copying stuff to DOS and forgot the floppies directory. If it's the former, then you've hit a bug which has sort of been our nemesis - certain DOS partitions, and it appears to be size or geometry related, simply can't be read from under FreeBSD and this is why the extraction fails. We're working on a total rewrite of msdosfs to try and fix this, but I'm afraid it doesn't help you much now. The best we (Walnut Creek CDROM) could offer you in this case would be a refund as there's no known work-around. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project