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From: Sanjeev Athalye <sathalye@qualcomm.com>
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Hi,

I have a P166 with a 2Gb HD, partitioned as follows:
DOS					400Mb
FreeBSD 700Mb
WinNT   900Mb

I partitioned the BSD slice, and mounted the drives /, SWAP, /var, 
/usr, as recommended in the installation. However, after selecting the 
Boot Manager, and attempting to complete the installation, it 
complains that the partition has been declared read-only! I am 
installing from an MS-DOS partition (C:\FREEBSD), and have FREEBSD\BIN 
and FREEBSD\FLOPPIES in there.

Does anyone have a possible solution?

Thanks,
Sanjeev Athalye.