From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 26 13: 1: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-svc.virgin.net (mta2-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.54.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D4A151FB for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:01:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michael.cugley@virgin.net) Received: from mike-s-box ([194.168.120.85]) by mta2-svc.virgin.net (InterMail v4.00.03.11 201-229-104-111) with SMTP id <19990326205953.QUKF14180.mta2-svc@mike-s-box>; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 20:59:53 +0000 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990326205844.007f6460@mail.virgin.net> X-Sender: michael.cugley@mail.virgin.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 20:58:44 +0000 To: KNGxRaGe@aol.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Michael Cugley Subject: Re: Installing from a FAT32 partition In-Reply-To: <294470c4.36fb6164@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Mike Cugley, lunatic at large http://freespace.virgin.net/michael.cugley/ http://freespace.virgin.net/michael.cugley/Art/ Mike's Doom Quake - http://www.crosswinds.net/dundee/~korvar/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message