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From: brian@anorak.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: freebsd won't install from 2.1.5 cdrom
Date: 3 Dec 1996 11:08:59 -0000
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In article <849243422.10628@dejanews.com>,
curt.finch@tkg.com writes:
: I've partitioned my Dell Win95 HD into two 1 meg portions,
: 1 for WINdoze and 1 for Freebsd. They show up currently
: as the C and D drives in both Windows and MSDOS. If I
: boot in DOS and follow the instructions to install FreeBSD
: on D: from the CDROM (E:) the fastboot hangs. This is
: whether I copy bin and the top of the cdrom tree to D:
: first and run it from there or also if I run these view
: and the install off of the E drive.
Try using DOS's "fdisk" to remove the partition that you
want to install FreeBSD on (D:)- FreeBSD can't install on
a DOS partition unless it first removes that partition (or
changes the sysid).
I havn't used "fastboot", but it occurs to me that you had
better not put the FreeBSD distribution somewhere that's going
to get overwritten (D:).
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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