From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 23 13:19:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10977 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 13:19:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dc.seflin.org (d055633c@dc.seflin.org [199.227.192.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA10804 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 13:18:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from d055633c@dc.seflin.org) Received: (from d055633c@localhost) by dc.seflin.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA25553; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:17:09 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:17:09 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Jackson Subject: Re: Help with dist packs. To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: 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 It sure is, and it is FAT16. It doesn't even seem like the drive is searching for the files. Robert Jackson d055633c@dc.seflin.org On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Robert Jackson wrote: > > > Hi, I can't seem to get /stand/sysinstall to install distribution packs > > from a dos partition. I've downloaded the manpages.a... files and used > > setup.exe to setup for an install from a dos partition. Still no luck. > > Any ideas guys? > > Is your DOS partition formatted as described in INSTALL.TXT? > > Is it a FAT16 partition? FAT32 isn't supported, yet. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message