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Date:      Fri, 26 Mar 1999 20:58:44 +0000
From:      Michael Cugley <michael.cugley@virgin.net>
To:        KNGxRaGe@aol.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing from a FAT32 partition
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19990326205844.007f6460@mail.virgin.net>
In-Reply-To: <294470c4.36fb6164@aol.com>

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At 05:28 AM 3/26/99 EST, KNGxRaGe@aol.com wrote:
>My computer has Microsoft Windows 98 installed on a FAT32 partition and
>whenever I try to install FreeBSD 3.1-stable, it says it couldn't find the
>bin, doc, and compatXX directories or any of the other directories I
>downloaded from "ftp.freebsd.org". Does Freebsd 3.1-stable support FAT32
>partitions?

Make sure bin\ doc\ compat1x\ and so forth are in your *root* directory,
not in a \FreeBSD\ directory like it says in the install docs.  I
successfully installed from a FAT32 drive once I found that out.


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