From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 21 17:05:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23343 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 17:05:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from corp.au.triax.com (slwag1p01.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA23330 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 17:05:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@corp.au.triax.com) Received: from localhost (jim@localhost) by corp.au.triax.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA01731; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 12:05:07 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 12:05:06 +1100 (EST) From: Jim Mock To: Brantley Hobbs cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD from a big FAT32 partition In-Reply-To: <000701be2d43$95a91ee0$000a0a0a@brantley> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Brantley Hobbs wrote: > 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. > You need to read the ERRATA.TXT file. With 3.0-RELEASE, they need to be in C:\3.0-RELEASE instead of C:\FreeBSD. You can find the ERRATA.TXT file on the ftp site at ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/3.0-RELEASE Hope this helps, -- : Jim Mock | [jim@corp.au.triax.com] : : System Administrator | http://www.triax.com/ : : Triax Internet Services | ----------------------------- : : Portland, OR USA | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve : : Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia | http://www.freebsd.org/ : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message