Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 16:42:16 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se> To: Breaker <breaker@dal.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD from a DOS partition. Message-ID: <19990317164216.A57657@sr.se> In-Reply-To: <36EFC1B6.F8AD0E07@dal.net>; from Breaker on Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 10:52:38PM %2B0800 References: <36EFC1B6.F8AD0E07@dal.net>
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On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 10:52:38PM +0800, Breaker wrote:
> 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: <whatever dist.'s I selected,
> ie; /bin /dict etc>".
It will work if you put /bin /dict etc directly under c:
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