Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:11:19 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Thomas R. Bissell III" <bissell@engr.csulb.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Recognizing DOS partition (was: I must be overlooking something...) Message-ID: <19980224101119.53248@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <01bd4087$04045f80$1e0da2d1@skillet>; from Thomas R. Bissell III on Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 10:15:26AM -0800 References: <01bd4087$04045f80$1e0da2d1@skillet>
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On Mon, 23 February 1998 at 10:15:26 -0800, Thomas R. Bissell III wrote: > Since my CDROM is unsupported (Toshiba 32X Atapi IDE), I mirror copied the > entire FreeBSD install CDROM to my primary dos partition on drive C: using > => xcopy /s D:\* C:\FreeBSD > I have one 3gig HD. 2gigs are primary dos partition, and 1gig is unused. I > had hoped to install FreeBSD from my primary dos partition, to my unused > space. > > The FreeBSD installation program will not recognize my primary dos > partition. > Am I overlooking something? Is this a known problem? Well, it would be nice to know how you determined that it doesn't recognize the partition. Can you describe it in more detail, please? Please copy -questions on your reply. I can't guarantee that I'll follow through on this one. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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