From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 16 10:55:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24911 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:55:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from imo19.mx.aol.com (imo19.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24898 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:55:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from GarHrumble@aol.com) From: GarHrumble@aol.com Received: from GarHrumble@aol.com by imo19.mx.aol.com (IMOv18.1) id GUWUa15053 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:48:20 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <988b9b87.36780074@aol.com> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:48:20 EST To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: problem installing from a DOS partition Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 205 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there any information available for installing from a DOS partition beyond what is in the handbook? I have followed the instructions precisely (I think) but the I get an error message that the bin directory could not be found. I have a 2 gig hard drive, which came with windows95. Recently, I upgraded to windows98. I partitioned off part of the disk using the FIPS utility and I created a bootable floppy. This seems to have worked OK. FreeBSD boots from the floppy fine, and it recognizes I have two partitions, the latter of which I specified as a unix slice (leaving the lower partition for DOS/windows). I let the installation program set up the filesystem, and it went through the motions of setting everything up, but when it tried to install a minimal distribution, which I had FTP'd into the "c:\freebsd" directory (I downloaded the 'bin' and 'manpages' directories), it said it could not find the bin directory (I did this several times, making sure I specified installation from a DOS partition). Is there something else I need to do? Or is FreeBSD not recognizing my DOS partition after all? Stan Kinderknecht To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message