From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 26 12:34:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA25436 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 12:34:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA25428 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 12:34:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA27217 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 12:33:50 -0800 Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [192.216.222.4]) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA26861 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 09:36:48 -0800 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA12169 Fri, 26 Jan 1996 09:01:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA12159 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 09:01:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (uconnvm.uconn.edu [137.99.26.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA12154 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 09:01:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from ruddles.stat.uconn.edu by UConnVM.UConn.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Fri, 26 Jan 96 12:01:37 EST Received: by ruddles.stat.uconn.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09002; Fri, 26 Jan 96 11:57:11 EST Date: Fri, 26 Jan 96 11:57:11 EST From: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) Message-Id: <9601261657.AA09002@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu> To: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Installation of FreeBSD-2.1 from DOS partition Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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