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To: Michael Berhanu <BMICK@bigpond.com>
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Subject: Re: What is the Problem?
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Hello,

from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/3.0-RELEASE/ERRATA.TXT :

o DOS partition installs fail to find the installation bits.

Fix: Rename C:\FREEBSD to C:\3.0-RELEASE and retry the installation.
     The naming syntax was changed to make DOS more like the other
     types of installation media but the docs on DOS installation
     were not updated properly to reflect this.  The current sysinstall
     now accepts both locations, as it should have to begin with.

	TfH

Michael Berhanu wrote:
> 
> Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.0-release for the first time(never tried
> to install a unix OS before), when trying to install the computer gives me a
> message along the lines of "unable to find files --bin, manpages--could have
> selected incorrect media type." This files are on my hardrive [C-(In FAT32
> format)]. I am trying to install FreeBSD on another partition. I have asked
> it several times to install from a dos partition and an existing file system
> and in both cases it fails. What could be the problem?
> 
> Thank you
>                    Michael
> 
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