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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 01:50:30 -0600
From: Tom Jackson <tom@my.domain>
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Subject: Re: I sent this message before and would like a response TODAY!!!
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On Fri, Nov 21, 1997 at 08:36:08AM -0700, David B. Alder wrote:
>  I downloaded all I could to install FreeBSD on my machine this past
> weekend.  I had intended to install from a DOS partition, but when I've
> configured the setup and am ready to select the installation media type,
> when I select DOS partition, it tells me that it can't mount it.  I tried
> looking for some documentation in your on line manual, but it was very
> limited.  If you could give me some pointers...just some basic stuff for
> installing from a DOS partition, I'd appreciate it.
> 
> David Alder
> 

not sure because I've never used this method *but*, did you place the
files on your C: drive and at c:\freebsd\bin, etc. ? reason I ask is
I don't think extended drive partition will work.

Tom