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Date:      Mon, 05 Apr 1999 22:49:11 +1000
From:      Joe Shevland <J_Shevland@Turnaround.com.au>
To:        jim@corp.au.triax.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MSDOS Install Quicky
Message-ID:  <3708B147.B64ABB0B@Turnaround.com.au>
References:  <3708AD40.D241127E@Turnaround.com.au> <19990406103917.A90858@corp.au.triax.com>

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Jim Mock wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 05 Apr 1999 at 22:32:00 +1000, Joe Shevland wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've had a few troubles installing from my primary DOS partition to
> > a FBSD partition on the same hard drive... is there a problem with
> > FAT32?  I didn't see it in the docs or lists anywhere. When I select
> > the minimum distribution, 'bin', using sysinstall then attempt to
> > commit the changes it tells me it cannot locate the distributions.
> > Or is there a special keyword for the release I need to use in the
> > options?
> >
> 
> Where do you have the distributions on the DOS partition?  They should
> be in c:\bin, c:\manpages, etc., or c:\RELEASES\bin, etc.  See the
> errata for 3.1-RELEASE for more info..
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.1R/errata.html

Thanks very much Jim, I was putting them in C:\FreeBSD\Bin etc... so
therein lies my problem.

I should be cooking now.

Thanks again,
Joe.

 
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