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To: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf)
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Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD-2.1 from DOS partition 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 26 Jan 1996 11:57:11 EST."
             <9601261657.AA09002@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu> 
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 01:33:02 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> I mailed a question last Monday concerning a problem installing FreeBSD
> 2.1 from a DOS partition.  I was able to install the minimal system (44MB)
> from floppy with the help of the root floppy image I created using
> rawrite.exe.  I have yet to install the system from my DOS partition.
> Either I have seriosly fudged the installation process (unlikely since I

Actually, I think I know what is going wrong.  Can you first tell me
how you created your FreeBSD partition?  Was it, perhaps, the result
of using FIPS?

					Jordan