From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 5 17:41:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corp.au.triax.com (slwag2p23.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60C8215574 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 17:41:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@corp.au.triax.com) Received: (from jim@localhost) by corp.au.triax.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA90897; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 10:39:18 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 10:39:17 +1000 From: Jim Mock To: Joe Shevland Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MSDOS Install Quicky Message-ID: <19990406103917.A90858@corp.au.triax.com> Reply-To: jim@corp.au.triax.com References: <3708AD40.D241127E@Turnaround.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.1i In-Reply-To: <3708AD40.D241127E@Turnaround.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 05 Apr 1999 at 22:32:00 +1000, Joe Shevland wrote: > Hi, > > I've had a few troubles installing from my primary DOS partition to > a FBSD partition on the same hard drive... is there a problem with > FAT32? I didn't see it in the docs or lists anywhere. When I select > the minimum distribution, 'bin', using sysinstall then attempt to > commit the changes it tells me it cannot locate the distributions. > Or is there a special keyword for the release I need to use in the > options? > Where do you have the distributions on the DOS partition? They should be in c:\bin, c:\manpages, etc., or c:\RELEASES\bin, etc. See the errata for 3.1-RELEASE for more info.. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.1R/errata.html -- Jim Mock System Administrator jim@corp.au.triax.com ,-._|\ FreeBSD work: Triax Internet Services http://www.triax.com/ / \ The personal: http://www.triax.com/~jim/ \_,--._/ Power To The FreeBSD 'zine http://www.freebsdzine.org/ v Serve! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message