From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 27 12:59:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08948 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:59:34 -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 MAA08934 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:59:19 -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 MAA16794; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:58:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:58:51 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Kevin W. English" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dos Partition In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Kevin W. English wrote: > Alrigth, I've been fooling around with the install of Freebsd on and off > for a couple of weeks. > > I downloaded the files from your ftp. I want to install from my dos > partition but when i goto media in the custom option, I select the dos > partition option and it says, "No Dos Primary Partion Found." SO that's as > far as I can get. You have to put the install files on a Primary DOS partition running FAT16, probably drive C:. With Win95B you could be running FAT32 which FreeBSD doesn't support; you can check this by getting properties on the drive. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major