From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 20 01:27:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA21863 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 01:27:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iconmail.bellatlantic.net (iconmail.bellatlantic.net [199.173.162.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA21791; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 01:27:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmm125@bellatlantic.net) Received: from dmm125 (client201-122-45.bellatlantic.net [151.201.122.45]) by iconmail.bellatlantic.net (IConNet Sendmail) with SMTP id EAA04253; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 04:25:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000401bdfc03$1f396b00$02000003@dmm125> From: "Donn Miller" To: "Mike Smith" Cc: , Subject: Re: FAT32 support for 3.0 installation Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 04:24:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: Mike Smith To: Donn Miller Cc: questions@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-questions" in the body of the message