Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:39:18 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Justin Clay <justinc@4dcomm.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing 2.2.5 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980204223818.16875V-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <34D938C4.9EFCEFF1@4dcomm.com>
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On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Justin Clay wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask questions about > installing BSD or not but here it goes. I'm trying to install freebsd > onto a 2.1gig UW drive (hooked to a 3940uw) from a 3.1 ide drive that is > split into 2 partitions, a 2.0 and a 1.1. I boot off the boot.flp disk > and then choose to install from a dos partition but it gives me an error > trying to read the dos partition, something about /dev/wds02 i think. > Anyway get back to me with any info you can, thanx a bunch The device is /dev/wd0s2, which is the second slice on your first IDE disk, in this case the 1.1GB extended partition. FreeBSD can't install from extended partitions. If you are installing by copying files from DOS, make sure you put the files on drive C: or any other primary paritition type. Extended partition installs are not supported. 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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