Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 12:55:17 +0100 From: Alex Le Heux <alexlh@funk.org> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Can't install from DOS partition Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981107125517.00b21100@crap.31337.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981107112048.asmodai@wxs.nl> References: <3.0.5.32.19981107011957.00ac4290@crap.31337.net>
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At 11:20 07-11-98 +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: >On 07-Nov-98 Alex Le Heux wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to install 3.0 from a DOS (well, a windows 98) partition, but >> sysinstall keeps complaining that it can't find the dists. >> >> I've put everything in c:/freebsd (ie. c:/freebsd/bin, etc) as it says in >> the docs, but it still doesn't seem to work. > >depends on what ye grabbed the installstuff... I thought that Jordan made a fix >to that. try using C:\FreeBSD-3.0 as a directory (correct me if wrong Jordan). > This didn't work either :-( What did work however, was using the Emergency Holographic Shell to access /stand/zcat and /stand/cpio to extract bin/*. Now it's slowely becoming a real system :-) Alex --- All operating systems suck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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