Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 21:41:59 -0700 (PDT) From: dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick) To: dmm125@bellatlantic.net, mike@smith.net.au Cc: dan@math.berkeley.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FAT32 support for 3.0 installation Message-ID: <199810210441.VAA15732@math.berkeley.edu>
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> The problems I'm having are that I boot up on the boot floppy (boot.flp). > Then when it gets to the point of the installation where it tries to extract > the distributions off my FAT32 partition, I get an error to the effect that > the following distributions weren't found: bin manpages proflibs des compat. > Basically, all of them. I thought that maybe sysinstall expected a certain > combination of uppercase/lowercase letter combinations. Like: > > C:\FreeBSD\bin > C:\FREEBSD\bin > C:\freebsd\BIN > C:\Freebsd\bin etc. since now we are working with case-sensitive filenames > with msdos. There is another possibility. I don't know if this is the case with installing recent releases from a local dos or other file system, but when installing via ftp, the installation program is looking for a subdirectory of the specified directory whose name is the release name. For example, when installing 3.0-19981009-BETA, I gave the installation program this URL: "ftp://xxx.berkeley.edu/FreeBSD" and it looked for the directory "FreeBSD/3.0-19981009-BETA/bin" within my home directory on the machine "xxx.berkeley.edu". The subdirectory/release name is wired into the installation floppy but changeable in the options installation menu. I am not at all certain that this is your problem, but I think it is worth looking into. The installation manual used to be a little vague about making copies of the release files for installation from local disk or tape. Dan Strick dan@math.berkeley.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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