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Date:      Wed, 12 Feb 1997 10:18:21 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Paul Richard McDowell <pdmcd@magicnet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installation fails during filesystem install
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970212101714.1121K-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <330153D1.834@magicnet.net>

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On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Paul Richard McDowell wrote:

> 	I have a CD ROM device that is not supported.  

What type of CDROM is it?  ATAPI/IDE disks are supported, but FreeBSD is
picky about where it wants them.

> 	So I did an xcopy from the distribution CD dists dir onto my
> second partition of the 1.6G disk.  I am going through the Novice
> install.  Everything works fine until I get to the installation media.
> I have tried using wd0s1 from the media choice window.  I have tried
> d:\freebsd\ and d:\freebsd when choosing the DOS installation.  All
> attempts have failed.  

Use c:\freebsd instead.  It must be on a DOS primary partition.

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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