Date: Tue, 30 Jan 96 10:56:15 EST From: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) To: rnordier@iafrica.com Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD from DOS partition Message-ID: <9601301556.AA19557@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu>
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Hello, I have not yet tried your suggestion, but I do have some information which could help shed some light on the DOS partition installation problem. An important fact is that I am able to install a WORKING version of the the minimal distribution of FreeBSD on my machine from floppy. It's an annoying 14 disk installation, but it works. I mount my DOS partition at /dos. When I go to read my files from DOS, I have the problem that the files appear in a directory, but they are somehow corrupt. Trying to read them using vi, it seems that a good portion of my system becomes corrupt. Trying to access vi again causes my system to complain about some bad magic number in a file called ld.so. I don't recall the path. A lot of my system becomes corrupt. More won't work complaining of the same error. When I stay entirely in BSD, I am fine. I can boot the machine (the boot manager gives me the option between Windows 95 and BSD and it works properly), I can log in as root. I can create users. They can create files in their directories. It all basically works. Maybe this will shed some light on the situation. Well, I am late for class. I'll write more later. Thanks, J. Metcalf
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