From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 17 6:46: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freddie.vianet.net.au (freddie.vianet.net.au [203.13.35.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9F9B14FB1 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 06:45:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from breaker@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (per1-ch06.vianet.net.au [210.8.98.70]) by freddie.vianet.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA11381 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 22:59:02 +0800 Message-ID: <36EFC1B6.F8AD0E07@dal.net> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 22:52:38 +0800 From: Breaker X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Problems installing FreeBSD from a DOS partition. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'd just like to let you know that 2.2.7-RELEASE is the only version I can get to successfully install from a DOS partition. I've been downloading various versions of FreeBSD since 2.2.5 and *none* of them have successfully installed (except 2.2.7). The latest version I've tried is 3.1-RELEASE, which also didn't work (and also screwed up the existing kernel/boot sector of my 2.2.7 installation, so I can't boot up)... so my main question is has there been any changes to the code between 2.2.5 and 2.2.7, and 2.2.7 to 3.1 that specifically deals with the reading installation media section. Just to clarify on "won't recognise it": basically after selecting commit, I get the error message "couldn't find the following distributions on the installation media: ". Thanks in advance. Regards, Trent. -- Breaker : Trent Nelson : breaker@dal.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message