From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 5 05:19:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA15016 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 05:19:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bbs.mpcs.com (bbs.mpcs.com [209.101.88.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA15008 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 05:19:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hg@cally.n2wx.ampr.org) Received: from pickle.n2wx.ampr.org (cc1017255-a.srst1.fl.home.com [24.3.122.197]) by bbs.mpcs.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/MPCS spamzap) with ESMTP id IAA23313; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 08:18:55 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by pickle.n2wx.ampr.org (8.9.2/8.8.2/n2wx) id IAA06234; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 08:18:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from cally.south.mpcs.com (cally.n2wx.ampr.org [172.16.0.6]) by pickle.n2wx.ampr.org (8.9.2/8.9.2/n2wx) with ESMTP id IAA06226; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 08:18:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hg@cally.n2wx.ampr.org) Received: (from hg@localhost) by cally.south.mpcs.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id IAA14410; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 08:18:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hg) Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 08:18:09 -0500 (EST) From: Howard Goldstein Message-Id: <199902051318.IAA14410@mpcs.com> To: silo@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD from a DOS partition or even from floppies In-Reply-To: <36B6963E.55DE@home.com> Reply-To: hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In muc.lists.freebsd.questions, you wrote: : I have tried the FAQ and the tutorial and the 'for newbies' section : and cannot find help with my problem. I can't install from either : floppies or c:\freebsd on my dos partition (/dev/wd0). You don't mention which release but it's likely to be 3.0, in which case this note from the ERRATA.TXT may be helpful... o DOS partition installs fail to find the installation bits. Fix: Rename C:\FREEBSD to C:\3.0-RELEASE and retry the installation. The naming syntax was changed to make DOS more like the other types of installation media but the docs on DOS installation were not updated properly to reflect this. The current sysinstall now accepts both locations, as it should have to begin with. -- The ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message