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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newsrelay.netins.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!gatech!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!handbag.tecc.co.uk!parody.tecc.co.uk!usenet From: james@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install from an Extended DOS partition - can I do it Date: 10 Jan 1996 22:47:26 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD Site Lines: 29 Message-ID: <JAMES.96Jan10224726@parody.tecc.co.uk> References: <DKvt5u.FMv@news.zippo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost In-reply-to: lewisg@sims.net's message of Mon, 8 Jan 1996 21:32:18 GMT >>>>> In article <DKvt5u.FMv@news.zippo.com>, lewisg@sims.net (Grant Lewis) writes: >> >> I want to be able to do a minimal install of freebsd from an extended DOS >> partition. I have downloaded the bin and floppies subdirectories from the ftp >> site and created my boot floppy. Hardware is recognized and I have done all >> the prelims. When I get to the stage of installing, the automated install >> tells me I need to assign disk labels before I can proceed and returns me to >> the initial menu. Need some assistance. My drives are labeled under dos as >> dos1 and dos2. "disklabel" is arguably a slightly confusing name - originally, BSD systems ran on dedicated disks and disklabel did most of what was required to set up a disk for BSD usage. With its entry into the PC world, where people expect to be able to put more than one operating system on the same disk, life became rather less simple. Anyway, what it wants is to know how you want to divide your FreeBSD partition (in the PC sense of the word), ie what partitions (in the BSD sense of the word) you want put on it - told you it was confusing didn't I 8-) If you press the F1 key in the disklabel menu, it will come up with some help that should explain how to do it. At a minimum, you need a root partition and a swap partition, although most people create other partitions for /usr, /var, /home and so on. James -- Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'