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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

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