From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 17 7:42:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5F4514EF4 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 07:42:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA05793; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 16:42:18 +0100 (MET) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA16538; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 16:42:17 +0100 (MET) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.2/8.9.1) id QAA57662; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 16:42:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar) Message-ID: <19990317164216.A57657@sr.se> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 16:42:16 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt To: Breaker Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD from a DOS partition. Reply-To: flygt@sr.se References: <36EFC1B6.F8AD0E07@dal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <36EFC1B6.F8AD0E07@dal.net>; from Breaker on Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 10:52:38PM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 10:52:38PM +0800, Breaker wrote: > Hi, > > I'd just like to let you know that 2.2.7-RELEASE is the only version I > can get to successfully install from a DOS partition. I've been > downloading various versions of FreeBSD since 2.2.5 and *none* of them > have successfully installed (except 2.2.7). > > The latest version I've tried is 3.1-RELEASE, which also didn't work > (and also screwed up the existing kernel/boot sector of my 2.2.7 > installation, so I can't boot up)... so my main question is has there > been any changes to the code between 2.2.5 and 2.2.7, and 2.2.7 to 3.1 > that specifically deals with the reading installation media section. > > Just to clarify on "won't recognise it": basically after selecting > commit, I get the error message "couldn't find the following > distributions on the installation media: ie; /bin /dict etc>". It will work if you put /bin /dict etc directly under c: -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message