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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Liu Yang <liu-yang@rocketmail.com>
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Subject: Re: error when install FreeBSD
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On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Liu Yang wrote:

> 
> I tried to install FreeBSD 2.2.2 from dos partition. 
> 
> I have copied the bin files to d:\freebsd\bin. But
> during the installation, I encouted "Error mounting
> DOS partition /dev/wd0s2: Invalid argument(22)". Can
> you tell me why?

The FreeBSD files must be placed on a primary partition, preferably drive
C:.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major