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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
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All operating systems suck.

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