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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: atapi cdrom support
Date: 3 Feb 1997 14:12:50 GMT
Organization: NeoSoft, Inc.
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In article <32F50BE7.1A0C@hem.passagen.se>,
Anton Hörnqvist <one@hem.passagen.se> writes:
> I've also tried copying the files to a dir (C:\FREEBSD) on my win95
> partition, and installing it from there. But that wouldn't work.
> (I have two partitions, each 1500MB)
> The installation program says "Read -1 bytes", Error..
> Any suggestions to this problem?
Yes. I've encountered the same problem. The cause is that FreeBSD has no
small difficulty with DOS partitions beyond a certain size (not sure what
size exactly; perhaps someone else can offer that information).
The solution is to create a smaller DOS partition, copy the distribution
files to it, and all will be well.
--
Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads