Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:38:49 -0500 From: "Oleg Ogurok" <oleg@ogurok.com> To: "Gianmarco Giovannelli" <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it>, <kenney@netacc.net>, <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Installing from MSDOS on 3.1 on notebook Message-ID: <000401be71a0$dae688c0$ba96d0d1@birch.ogurok.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990320004835.009d27f0@194.184.65.4>
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Actually, I had the same problem 2 days ago. You need to put all directories (bin, src, cat, manpages, etc.) to the root directory on your DOS partition, not in \freebsd, but in \. Oleg Ogurok oleg@ogurok.com http://www.ogurok.com -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Gianmarco Giovannelli Sent: Friday, March 19, 1999 6:50 PM To: kenney@netacc.net; freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing from MSDOS on 3.1 on notebook At 14.40 18/03/99 +0000, Jeffrey Kenney wrote: > >I am trying to install 3.1 on my notebook, but It will notistall from the >msdos partition like the 2.2.8 install did. > >I created the c:\freebsd directory and all of the dists are inside, but it >willnot work, it says that itcan not find the files. (it did mount the >drive though) > >I installed 2.2.8 yesterday via this method and it worked fine. Any >suggestions? did anyone change the way the boot floppies perform a msdos >install? try to make a dir c:\release (or releases I don't remember) and put the other dirs like bin inside... Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://www.giovannelli.it/~gmarco http://www2.masternet.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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