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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.idt.net!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!info.uah.edu!maze.dpo.uab.edu!usenet From: JF <Mpsy013@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DOS FAT FS support in FreeBSD fixed ? Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 08:56:57 -0800 Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham Lines: 31 Message-ID: <32C00B59.1B8D@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu> References: <59g13d$hh@herald.concentric.net> <32BC0B2B.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> Reply-To: ari@bitsmart.com NNTP-Posting-Host: tty14.maze.ppp.uab.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I; 16bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33154 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Daniel Ts'o wrote: > > Not too long ago I recall that the FAT support under FreeBSD was > > considered broken, particularly for writing in a FAT filesystem. Has > > this been fixed ? What is the state of FAT support under FreeBSD ? > > Nothing has changed, though I have gone to a stand-alone DOS I/O library > for FreeBSD 2.2 in the installation, so you should at least be able to > *install* your FreeBSD system from a DOS partition. Whether that DOS > partition is still useful to you after you boot (e.g. whether or not you > can mount and use it successfully) is still a matter of luck and having > a DOS partition <511MB in size. > -- > - Jordan Hubbard > President, FreeBSD Project Are you saying that in 2.1.6, you CAN'T install from a DOS partition? If so, then how would a DOS user install the DISTs without going by floppies. I do not have another FreeBSD system, and would really like to install FreeBSD. So far I spent 2 days trying to install it to no avail. In the FreeBSD install's "FDISK", I have to delete the DOS partition to make the FreeBSD partition, and then it says "cannot find distributions: bin, manpages" etc. but they were on my DOS partition. I have also tried making an extended DOS partition, then using the Primanry as FreeBSD, but then I don't know where to tell it the FreeBSD dists are. I would really like to use FreeBSD, but I am getting frustrated. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Ari Friedman Ari@bitsmart.com