From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 23 16:57:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from emerald.oz.net (emerald.oz.net [216.39.128.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96ECC15052 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:57:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ericw@oz.net) Received: from BUNGHOLE (sense-sea-MegaSub-1-146.oz.net [216.39.144.146]) by emerald.oz.net (8.9.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA14494 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:55:47 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990323164455.00933120@mail.oz.net> X-Sender: ericw@mail.oz.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:55:53 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Eric Webster Subject: Installing BSD From DOS Partition Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi , I am trying to install FreeBSD 3.1 from an msdos partition and I am having some problems. My issue is I created a directory on C: called freebsd and I downloaded the entire FreeBSD release directory to it except for X86 and source. When I choose novice install from the install menu it says /dev/wd0s1 /dist no such file or directory. In label editor my setup is like this wd0s1 1702MG wd0s3a 30MG wd0s3b 133MG wd0s3c 32MG wd0s3d / 620MG UFS N <------ I thought this is root file system and where bsd should be installed I Could be wrong... please help !! Thanks !!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message