From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 21 17:01:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA22957 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 17:01:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iway1.iw.net (iway1.iw.net [204.157.148.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22947 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 17:00:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dragonknight@dtgnet.com) Received: from death (rap-dialup-34.dtgnet.com [216.16.6.34] (may be forged)) by iway1.iw.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA22657; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 19:00:55 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <006101be2d46$28b40680$7d61fea9@death> From: "Dragon Knight" To: "Brantley Hobbs" , Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD from a big FAT32 partition Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 17:58:14 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When I installed 2.2.8 from a FAT32 partition it complained until I renamed it to C:\FREEBSD Maybe this will help. Samuel Greear HELP! I have downloaded the entire 3.0-RELEASE directory from ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD and placed it on my FAT32 disk as C:\FreeBSD\. I have replicated the directory structure properly, but when I boot the install disk and select DOS partition as the install media, FreeBSD cannot find the files. I am running Win98 with a 13.5Gb disk. The FAT32 partition is 10Gb. Can FreeBSD read a FAT32 partition that big? The LINUX installation disk couldn't, so I thought that maybe this was the problem here. System Configuration: ASUS P5A Motherboard@100MHz AMD K6-2@350MHz 64MB PC100 SDRAM Diamond Viper V550 PCI/16Mb SDRAM 13.5Gb IBM Harddisk (10Gb FAT32 partition, the rest is marked as FreeBSD) I am using the FreeBSD v3.0 boot.flp image. Thanks Brantley geekopus@negia.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message