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To: "Majid Almassari" <majid@ibroadcast.net>
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Subject: Re: installing freebsd from dos partition 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Feb 2000 16:54:27 PST."
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 11:04:54 -0500
From: Arvind Sankar <arvinds@MIT.EDU>
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My mistake. I set the partition types using the installer, and I guess
it doesn't rescan for DOS partitions. Everything worked fine once I
rebooted.

-- arvind

> Are you booting among different operating systems? Also what does your BIOS
> detect first the SCSI or the IDE? because it will see the MBR of the first
> drive that your BIOS sees. just my $.02 cents.
> --
> Majid Almassari, MSEE, MCP.
> System Administrator.
> iBroadcast, Inc.
> majid@ibroadcast.net
> http://www.ibroadcast.net
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Arvind Sankar <arvinds@MIT.EDU>
> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 5:02 PM
> Subject: installing freebsd from dos partition
> 
> 
> > hi.
> >
> > I'm trying to install the 3.2 release on a i386 system that has one ide
> > and one scsi disk. The release files are under freebsd/ in /dev/da0s1,
> > which is a dos partition. /dev/da0s3 is the bsd slice. /dev/da0s2 is a
> > linux root partition, and /dev/da0s4 is an extended partition containing
> > the rest of the linux part.
> >
> > when I attempt to set the install media to DOS, I get the error message:
> > Cannot mount /dev/da0s4 on /dist. How do I persuade the installer to
> > look at /dev/da0s1 instead? The problem is incomprehensible to me,
> > because /dev/da0s4 is not even a dos partition (shows up as unknown in
> > the pc partition editor).
> >
> > Can someone help?
> >
> > --
> > Arvind Sankar                       phone : (617)-776-5083
> > 156 School St, #6                   e-mail: arvinds@mit.edu
> > Somerville, MA02143
> >
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