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Date:      Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:58:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Kevin W. English" <englishk@seas.gwu.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dos Partition
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980127125743.16751H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980124014201.8350A-100000@felix>

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On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Kevin W. English wrote:

> Alrigth, I've been fooling around with the install of Freebsd on and off
> for a couple of weeks. 
> 
> I downloaded the files from your ftp. I want to install from my dos
> partition but when i goto media in the custom option, I select the dos
> partition option and it says, "No Dos Primary Partion Found." SO that's as
> far as I can get.

You have to put the install files on a Primary DOS partition running
FAT16, probably drive C:.  With Win95B you could be running FAT32 which
FreeBSD doesn't support; you can check this by getting properties on the
drive.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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