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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!nntp04.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!news.hooked.net!chum-51 From: dabrin@hooked.net (dabrin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Installation panic "bad dir" Date: Mon, 02 Sep 96 19:10:51 GMT Organization: Hooked Online Services Lines: 19 Message-ID: <50fbfr$g8_001@ppp.hooked.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: chum-51.ppp.hooked.net X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 I tried to install FreeBSD 2.1.5 from a DOS partition (since I can't get it to install from my old-school Mitsumi CD drive, even though there is a driver etc). It creates the BSD slice okay then complains that files cannot be written, then retries and is okay, then complains again, then panics "bad dir" and reboots. I've copied the entire DISTS directory and everything seems fine in DOS. The DOS partition with the read data is the first partition of a slave drive (a Western Digital IDE with 2-1/2 gigs); the BSD slice is on the second. I can boot from the BSD slice, but the boot program complains that there is no kernel. I'm actually surprised it can do this much, since it seemed to have such severe problems installing files. I guess this means it does actually copy some things, but freaks out for another reason. Any advice? Thanks! David Brinegar dabrin@hooked.net