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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.easystreet.com!not-for-mail From: tedm@portsoft.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Failed to load ROOT Date: 18 Apr 1997 06:40:48 GMT Organization: Easystreet Online Services Lines: 7 Message-ID: <5j751g$blc$3@easystreet03> References: <5j4m5a$rhm@kudu.ru.ac.za> Reply-To: tedm@portsoft.com NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.portsoft.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39280 In <5j4m5a$rhm@kudu.ru.ac.za>, ccdw@kudu.ru.ac.za (Dave Wilson) writes: >I've xcopied everything off a 2.1 cdrom onto my DOS c: drive (into a >'freebsd' directory), but when I run the install I get the following >error: "Failed to load the ROOT distribution". I'm using an 2.1 GB IDE >drive, with an 800MB DOS partition DOS partition must be 500MB or less in size to be properly dealt with