problem installing freebsd

Andrew L. Gould algould at datawok.com
Tue Jul 27 00:49:36 PDT 2004


On Tuesday 27 July 2004 01:09 am, Sikander Abbasi wrote:
> Dear sir,
>
> thanking you for your reply
>
> I am using freebsd 5.2 cdrom installing,it give
> errorwhen it start installing file system, error, max
> one fat partition allow.
>
> with regards
> Sikander Abbasi

Are you having FreeBSD install a fat filesystem?
Are you trying to install FreeBSD to a fat filesystem?

Do you have operating systems on both fat partitions?
Did you label both fat partitions as bootable?
Did you label the FreeBSD partition as bootable?

What mount points did you assign to the fat partitions?

How did you divided the FreeBSD partition into /, swap, etc.?

You might try ignoring (not changing, not mounting, not labelling as 
bootable) the fat partitions during installation and see if that helps.

You might also try more recent releases such as FreeBSD 4.10 or 5.2.1.

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould


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