From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 23 15:41:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14460 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:41:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14432 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:41:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA08776; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:11:20 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA13112; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:11:19 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980224101119.53248@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:11:19 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Thomas R. Bissell III" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Recognizing DOS partition (was: I must be overlooking something...) References: <01bd4087$04045f80$1e0da2d1@skillet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <01bd4087$04045f80$1e0da2d1@skillet>; from Thomas R. Bissell III on Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 10:15:26AM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 23 February 1998 at 10:15:26 -0800, Thomas R. Bissell III wrote: > Since my CDROM is unsupported (Toshiba 32X Atapi IDE), I mirror copied the > entire FreeBSD install CDROM to my primary dos partition on drive C: using > => xcopy /s D:\* C:\FreeBSD > I have one 3gig HD. 2gigs are primary dos partition, and 1gig is unused. I > had hoped to install FreeBSD from my primary dos partition, to my unused > space. > > The FreeBSD installation program will not recognize my primary dos > partition. > Am I overlooking something? Is this a known problem? Well, it would be nice to know how you determined that it doesn't recognize the partition. Can you describe it in more detail, please? Please copy -questions on your reply. I can't guarantee that I'll follow through on this one. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message