Date: Fri, 26 Jan 96 11:57:11 EST From: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) To: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Installation of FreeBSD-2.1 from DOS partition Message-ID: <9601261657.AA09002@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu>
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Hello, I mailed a question last Monday concerning a problem installing FreeBSD 2.1 from a DOS partition. I was able to install the minimal system (44MB) from floppy with the help of the root floppy image I created using rawrite.exe. I have yet to install the system from my DOS partition. Either I have seriosly fudged the installation process (unlikely since I followed the instructions religiously) or there in a bug in the installation floppy when the installation medium is an MSDOS partition. I suspect the latter. It seems that FreeBSD either cannot find the root.flp image which I put into c:\freebsd\floppies from e:\floppies or it cannot find the contents of c:\freebsd\bin which is where I put the contents of e:\dists\bin. Perhaps there is a discrepancy between the installation manual's described path for the bin.* files or the root.flp image, and the installation program's actaual path for looking for these files. I would appreciate a reply. You can reference my Monday, 22-JAN-96 message sent to questions@FreeBSD.org. Thank You, J. Metcalf
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