From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Dec 13 10:12:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22892 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 10:12:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.rdu.bellsouth.net (mail.rdu.bellsouth.net [205.152.32.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22887 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 10:12:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from angelsan@bellsouth.net) From: angelsan@bellsouth.net Received: from angelsan (host-209-214-163-100.rdu.bellsouth.net [209.214.163.100]) by mail.rdu.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA29824 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 13:12:39 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199812131812.NAA29824@mail.rdu.bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 13:13:25 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Bug? FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I downloaded the distribuition of FreeBSD-RELEASE to install it from a dos partition, but when I attempted to do so the installer gave me a message that could not install it with a hint that it might be because the distribution was not present in the partition I had it. At first I was using the D:\FREEBSD partition on the second drive on the first IDE controller (wd0s2). I suspected that it had to be on the C: drive so I copied evrething to C:\FREEBSD, but I got the same result. I consulted with the users and developers at #freebsd on EfNet but I was todl I was doing the righ thing. Finally I decided to mirror the CDROM by moving all the data from D:\FREEBSD to D:\ and it worked!. So I found out that the distribution needs to be on the root directory rather than on the \FREEBSD for a dos partition installation. Thanks for a great job! Angel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message