From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 26 18:03:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA24778 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 18:03:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA24669 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 18:03:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA00929; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 18:03:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 18:03:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: sue@welearn.com.au cc: EdLeeNY@aol.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question In-Reply-To: <19980227114348.09636@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 04:28:21PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Feb 1998 EdLeeNY@aol.com wrote: > > > > > i have all my bin files in my c: drive and i'm trying to install freebsd to my > > > d: drive (i'm using all of d: for unix). i tried using the "install from ms- > > > dos partition" option, but it didn't work. maybe it's because the drives are > > > compressed already. or maybe some other reason. do you know what i should > > > do? (i don't have the CDROM by the way). > > > > You need to resize your DOS partitions; FreeBSD requires it's own slice. > > And can it be installed from files on a compressed DOS drive? No. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message