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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NFS install problem (2.0.5R)
Date: 18 Aug 1995 11:19:01 +0200
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Gerhard Mehldau <mehldau@photogrammetrie.de> wrote:

>NFS install:
>Couldn't get root image from remotehost:/cdrom!
>Will try to get it from floppy.
>
>What am I missing?

The file floppies/root.flp could not be found.  You can switch over to
the emergency holographic shell on VT4 and verify that your NFS mount
actually yielded what it should.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)