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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!agate!theos.com!riscan.riscan.com!van.istar!ott.istar!istar.net!winternet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!news2.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Desparately needing help installing w/Win95 Date: 4 Jun 1996 19:47:31 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4p23sj$n21@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ohq0j$qj1@web.nmti.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E suzi@nmti.com (susan totten) wrote: > If I install using the disk geometry as reported by BIOS, the installation This is what you should do. Only (*ONLY* !) the BIOS geometry is of any importance. Nothing else. Burn your disk manual. Dump pfdisk. Kill ``boot -v''. Consult your BIOS. > program says it can't find the root floppy on D:. If I install using the Read the installation instructions. Your directory structure doesn't match the expected one, but i'm not sure offhand how the installation from a DOS drive is supposed to work. (I've never did it.) As long as your only problem is a failure to find the root.flp file, you can simply copy this onto a physical floppy, and supply it when being asked. However, if your distribution files are not found, you are at a loss. (Naturally) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)