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Date:      Sun, 2 Feb 1997 22:50:02 -0800
From:      "Joseph I. Arias" <BigDaddy@LiveNet.Net>
To:        <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   I can't install from dos partition
Message-ID:  <199702030354.WAA27251@Clifford.LiveNet.Net>

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Hi I have a Pentium 133 
32 megs ram
1.1 gig c:\
2.7 gig cut down the middle making:
1.35 D:\
1.35 E:\

and I have a 2.1 GIG FREE for Unix

I have given this drive to Unix completely and have ran the boot install
I selected to give the whole drive to unix
I partitioned it this way
50M /
100M SWAP
200M /var
16??M /usr  ?? meaning the rest of the disk space

I start the install and it dies and give me this error:

Error mounting /dev/wd1s2 on /dos: invalid argument (22)

/dev/wd1s2 I believe would be drive E:\  and that is the drive I have
FreeBSD in. In the E:\FREEBSD directory

I was told it wouldn't work in a windows inviroment so I formated C:\ and
installed Dos version 6.22 and got the same message. I rawrite boot4.flp to
disk and boot off it I did all the installation option Novice , Quick, and
Expert with I found to be the easy of the all because of the fact that you
can go back and recheck your setting before comiting to anything I also
tryed to tell it to do exsisting file and pointed to them and it didn't
work... Now I have dont the operation without telling it to copy any files
and it does the partition corectly and all but it says I can't boot off
this drive because no files were installed.. I hope this will help you with
my problem I'm lost.

Thanks Joe



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