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From: burgess@s069.infonet.net (Dave Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: HELP! FreeBSD 1.1R hangs while installing!
Date: 7 Jul 1994 14:41:40 -0500
Organization: Dave's House in Omaha
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References: <2v186s$14e@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <2v4r88$he1@ohlone.kn.pacbell.com> <2vf0mm$6nm@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
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In article <2vf0mm$6nm@pdq.coe.montana.edu>,
Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote:
>In article <2v4r88$he1@ohlone.kn.pacbell.com>,
>Sherman Mui <smui@news.kn.PacBell.COM> wrote:
>>I'm trying 
>>1.1.5R and there is a new problem. FreeBSD can't find my DOS partition... 
>>It says that my partition table is corrupt or missing. It's there and my 
>>MS-DOS 6 fdisk and my Buslogic version of fdisk have no problems.
>>
>>I fear I may have caused the problem when I went screwed around too much 
>>with the install.
>
>I think so.  Does DOS still work?
>
>

Nate, Nate, Nate, Nate, Nate.....

As always, I could be wrong, but I bet that our friend here is using
Dblspace on his DOS 6.* hard drive.  That will make the partition table
pretty squirrelly.

If not, then I am completely clueless (so what else would be new,
eh?)...

:-) Talk to you later.

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