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From: Ean Kingston <ean@gold.interlog.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installing from my D: drive?
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 10:28:22 -0500
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To: Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>
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I didn't see a response that answered your question (of course the news
server here at interlog has been acting funny recently) so here is what I
know about installing from dos partitions:

1) (from the compatibility help files) FreeBSD (2.1 anyway) doesn't
support DOS EXTENDED PARTITIONS.  If people have 2 dos partitions on the
same physical drive the second one is almost always an extended partitions
because dos could not handle more then 1 primary partition untill dos 3.3.
After that microsoft was just too lazy to fix the code in fdisk to create
multiple dos partitions.  So unless you did something really odd when you
setup dos you can't install from your D: because FreeBSD can't recognize
this.  I am not sure if the nice folks who bring us FreeBSD have added
support for extended partitions since version 2.1.

2) The install program from 2.1 doesn't like to install packages
automatically for you from a dos file system.  You must install each
package separately by yourself (see the pkg_add man page for more
details).

Hope I helped.

On 18 Mar 1997, Lloyd Zusman wrote:

> Is it possible to do a DOS-partition install of FreeBSD 2.2 from my D:
> drive instead of my C: drive?  The D: drive is on the same physical
> disk as C:, but in a different partition.  I would like to create a
> D:\FreeBSD directory with the distribution and then start up the boot
> diskette, but I don't know how to make this work.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -- 
> Lloyd Zusman    	01234567 <-- The world famous Indent-o-Meter.
> ljz@asfast.com          ^	     Indent or be indented.
> 
> 

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