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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!news.pbi.net!news5.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mounting DOS drives antics Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 14:29:46 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 18 Message-ID: <32C1AADA.15FB7483@FreeBSD.org> References: <59etkk$b2i@news.xs4all.nl> <59nbej$ps9@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <32C0110C.5686@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: ari@bitsmart.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33145 JF wrote: > 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 1. Load gun. 2. Aim. 3. Shoot foot. What did you expect? :-) You need more disk space, pretty clearly. That or make a smaller DOS partition. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project