From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 23 16:10:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA23419 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:10:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA23395 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:10:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA25004; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:10:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:10:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Thomas R. Bissell III" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I must be overlooking something... In-Reply-To: <01bd4087$04045f80$1e0da2d1@skillet> 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, 23 Feb 1998, Thomas R. Bissell III wrote: > Since my CDROM is unsupported (Toshiba 32X Atapi IDE), Hm, that should work. Are you sure it's not supported? > 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. It must be drive C:. > Am I overlooking something? Is this a known problem? See if you can get the CD working, that is so much easier. FreeBSD must install to it's own slice. 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