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Date:      Wed, 27 May 1998 13:42:03 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
Cc:        Satwant <satwant@lachman.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FREEBSD installation.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980527133555.12452D-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980527095355.2597A-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>

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On Wed, 27 May 1998, Jonathan Chen wrote:

> On Tue, 26 May 1998, Satwant wrote:
> 
> [snipped. please leave Cc: when replying]
> 

[more snipping]

> 
> Is your CDROM drive an IDE based one? Common suggestions include
> shifting it on the primary-controller (ie the 1st one) and making sure
> it's jumpered as a slave.
> 
> > Now I am trying the following:
> > 
> > copying all of cdrom contents onto D: drive, so that I may
> > ( I hope I can) later choose to load through DOS partition and be 
> > able to specify that drive. ( I have C+D drive on my HD1 and E on HD2-
> > I plan to use E as my bsd disk)
> > 
> > I dont know if it will work.
> 
> I've never really tried installing off a DOS partition before, but
> perhaps others on the list may have and perhaps advise you.
> 

I have, because I had the same problems.  I have the luxury of having lots
of space, so I copied the contents of the CD onto a DOS partition (ie:
D:\freebsd)  D: in your case should be wd0s2 and that's the partition
you'd specify.  It worked just fine.


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