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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!daffy!uwvax!uchinews!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.erg.cuhk.hk!usenet From: CHAN Yiu Wah <clarence> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem installing 2.0.5 from a DOS Partition Date: 13 Jul 1995 00:54:03 GMT Organization: Engineering Faculty CUHK Lines: 41 Message-ID: <3u1qrb$6s@eng_ser1.erg.cuhk.hk> References: <3tuarq$4bp@martha.utk.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sparc9.cs.cuhk.hk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-------------------------------114449266610511140271643679368" X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3C sun4m) X-URL: news:3tuarq$4bp@martha.utk.edu This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------------------114449266610511140271643679368 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Did you copied the dist set (eg bin) into dist dir (eg c:\freebsd\bin) ? I had use the 950622 SNAP to install without any problem. I had tiried to install using floppies and dos hard disk successfully. Would you mind to state precisely what is the problem you had encountered. Heath Brewer <brewer> wrote: >After following the instructions for installing from a DOS partition and >partitoning my disk with FIPS the install utility on the boot floppy states >that it cannot find the necessary files selected for installation. I placed >the files in C:\freebsd. I also have a 1.2G harddrive and my bios does have >>1G support enabled. > ---------------------------------114449266610511140271643679368 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain From: Heath Brewer <brewer> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problem installing 2.0.5 from a DOS Partition Date: 11 Jul 1995 17:02:50 GMT Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <3tuarq$4bp@martha.utk.edu> After following the instructions for installing from a DOS partition and partitoning my disk with FIPS the install utility on the boot floppy states that it cannot find the necessary files selected for installation. I placed the files in C:\freebsd. I also have a 1.2G harddrive and my bios does have >1G support enabled. ---------------------------------114449266610511140271643679368--