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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.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!mindspring!uunet!in3.uu.net!198.53.145.3!news.interlog.com!gold.interlog.com!ean 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 Organization: InterLog Internet Services Lines: 43 Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970320102133.5334A-100000@gold.interlog.com> References: <slrn5it6bh.aoj.ljz@sunspot.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: gold.interlog.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> In-Reply-To: <slrn5it6bh.aoj.ljz@sunspot.tiac.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37546 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. > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ean Kingston (email: ean@interlog.com) http://www.interlog.com/~ean/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-