Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:48:20 EST From: GarHrumble@aol.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: problem installing from a DOS partition Message-ID: <988b9b87.36780074@aol.com>
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Is there any information available for installing from a DOS partition beyond what is in the handbook? I have followed the instructions precisely (I think) but the I get an error message that the bin directory could not be found. I have a 2 gig hard drive, which came with windows95. Recently, I upgraded to windows98. I partitioned off part of the disk using the FIPS utility and I created a bootable floppy. This seems to have worked OK. FreeBSD boots from the floppy fine, and it recognizes I have two partitions, the latter of which I specified as a unix slice (leaving the lower partition for DOS/windows). I let the installation program set up the filesystem, and it went through the motions of setting everything up, but when it tried to install a minimal distribution, which I had FTP'd into the "c:\freebsd" directory (I downloaded the 'bin' and 'manpages' directories), it said it could not find the bin directory (I did this several times, making sure I specified installation from a DOS partition). Is there something else I need to do? Or is FreeBSD not recognizing my DOS partition after all? Stan Kinderknecht To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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