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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!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!portc02.blue.aol.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!maze.dpo.uab.edu!usenet From: JF <Mpsy013@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mounting DOS drives antics Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 09:21:16 -0800 Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham Lines: 19 Message-ID: <32C0110C.5686@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu> References: <59etkk$b2i@news.xs4all.nl> <59nbej$ps9@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> 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:33155 Brian Somers wrote: (in reply to another article) > Yep - you're mounting a dos partition greater than 1022Mb (I'll bet). It's > a well recognised bug at this point :( > > -- > Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org> If you can mount DOS drives, can you do it in installation? I am trying to install FreeBSD, but whenever I do, 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