From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 20 18:28:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C244115170 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 18:28:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA06888; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:58:07 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA45852; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:58:15 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:58:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: yangweimin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installing from DOS partition (was: Requiry) Message-ID: <19990621105815.C6820@freebie.lemis.com> References: <00aa01bebb84$c4623440$7d03910a@host.sriptnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <00aa01bebb84$c4623440$7d03910a@host.sriptnet>; from yangweimin on Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 09:24:06AM +0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [moved to -questions; this isn't a documentation issue] On Monday, 21 June 1999 at 9:24:06 +0800, yangweimin wrote: > Sir, > I've tried many times to intall freebsd through "DOS partion", but > it give me the information "Can't find bin, game, ports...". > How can I config the option? You need to put the software on the disk. > How can I install the FreeBSD in the logical partion E? You can't. You need a physical partition for FreeBSD. In general, you're *much* better off installing from CD-ROM and ignoring Microsoft. You'll find more information in the online handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/). Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message