From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 21 16:40:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA20590 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:40:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from garlic.negia.net (garlic.negia.net [206.61.0.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA20583 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:40:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from geekopus@negia.net) Received: from brantley (p6.negia.net [207.43.201.16]) by garlic.negia.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA15340 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 19:12:08 -0500 Message-ID: <000701be2d43$95a91ee0$000a0a0a@brantley> From: "Brantley Hobbs" To: Subject: Installing FreeBSD from a big FAT32 partition Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 19:39:48 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE2D19.AB8C8D20" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE2D19.AB8C8D20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable HELP! I have downloaded the entire 3.0-RELEASE directory from = ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD and placed it on my FAT32 disk as = C:\FreeBSD\. I have replicated the directory structure properly, but when I boot the = install disk and select DOS partition as the install media, FreeBSD = cannot find the files. =20 I am running Win98 with a 13.5Gb disk. The FAT32 partition is 10Gb. = Can FreeBSD read a FAT32 partition that big? The LINUX installation = disk couldn't, so I thought that maybe this was the problem here. System Configuration: ASUS P5A Motherboard@100MHz AMD K6-2@350MHz 64MB PC100 SDRAM Diamond Viper V550 PCI/16Mb SDRAM 13.5Gb IBM Harddisk (10Gb FAT32 partition, the rest is marked as = FreeBSD) I am using the FreeBSD v3.0 boot.flp image. Thanks Brantley geekopus@negia.net ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE2D19.AB8C8D20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

HELP!

I have downloaded the entire = 3.0-RELEASE=20 directory from ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD and placed it on my FAT32 = disk as=20 C:\FreeBSD\.

I have replicated the directory = structure=20 properly, but when I boot the install disk and select DOS partition as = the=20 install media, FreeBSD cannot find the files.

I am running Win98 with a 13.5Gb = disk. The=20 FAT32 partition is 10Gb. Can FreeBSD read a FAT32 partition that=20 big? The LINUX installation disk couldn't, so I thought that maybe = this=20 was the problem here.

System Configuration:

ASUS P5A = Motherboard@100MHz

AMD K6-2@350MHz

64MB PC100 SDRAM

Diamond Viper V550 PCI/16Mb SDRAM

13.5Gb IBM Harddisk (10Gb FAT32 = partition, the=20 rest is marked as FreeBSD)

I am using the FreeBSD v3.0 boot.flp = image.

Thanks

Brantley

geekopus@negia.net

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