Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 04:24:55 -0400 From: "Donn Miller" <dmm125@bellatlantic.net> To: "Mike Smith" <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FAT32 support for 3.0 installation Message-ID: <000401bdfc03$1f396b00$02000003@dmm125>
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-----Original Message----- From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 1:58 AM Subject: Re: FAT32 support for 3.0 installation >> >> I've seen all the postings about how FAT32 support was removed from the = >> 3.0-RELEASE installation floppy. I tried moving the distribution files = >> to my FAT16 partition and I couldn't install from there either. Was = >> msdos filesystem support removed altogether from the boot floppy = >> (boot.flp) of the 3.0-RELEASE and 3.0-current branch? > >FAT32 wasn't removed from the floppy. The FAT code was removed and >replaced several times, but I believe it's in there. You need to be >just a little more specific about your problems... The problems I'm having are that I boot up on the boot floppy (boot.flp). Then when it gets to the point of the installation where it tries to extract the distributions off my FAT32 partition, I get an error to the effect that the following distributions weren't found: bin manpages proflibs des compat. Basically, all of them. I thought that maybe sysinstall expected a certain combination of uppercase/lowercase letter combinations. Like: C:\FreeBSD\bin C:\FREEBSD\bin C:\freebsd\BIN C:\Freebsd\bin etc. since now we are working with case-sensitive filenames with msdos. I remember with 2.2.7 I had problems because I used a scheme like C:\FreeBSD\bin for my FAT32 partition. It said the same thing that it couldn't find the dists. Then I changed the filenames to e.g. C:\FREEBSD\bin and then it installed OK. But this time I tried various combinations of uppercase/lowercase to no avail. I even tried copying C:\FreeBSD (FAT32) to D:\FreeBSD (FAT16) since D: is FAT16. The thinking there was that if it couldn't install from FAT32, FAT16 should work. As a check I tried booting off the boot.flp from the latest 3.0-SNAP release, with the same result. I also tried booting off the boot.flp from 2.2.7-RELEASE as a check with just a minimal install and it went OK (but it caught SIG 11). The main thing was it could at least mount and read the msdos-fs. Someone suggested that all msdos-fs code was removed from 3.0's boot floppy. Donn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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