From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 09:19:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA12643 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 09:19:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from motgate2.mot.com (motgate2.mot.com [129.188.136.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA12634 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 09:19:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pobox.mot.com (pobox.mot.com [129.188.137.100]) by motgate2.mot.com (8.7.3/8.6.10/MOT-3.8) with ESMTP id NAA29029 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 13:34:52 GMT Received: from po_box.cig.mot.com (po_box.cig.mot.com [136.182.15.5]) by pobox.mot.com (8.7.3/8.6.10/MOT-3.8) with SMTP id IAA11870 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 08:37:39 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199608071337.JAA24090@po_box.cig.mot.com> Received: from thorite (localhost.cig.mot.com [127.0.0.1]) by thorite.cig.mot.com (8.6.11/SCERG-1.12B) with SMTP id IAA20454; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 08:37:37 -0500 Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 08:37:37 -0500 From: Garry Offord Organization: Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Question about installing FreeBSD from floppies X-URL: http://www.freebsd.org/mailto.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a (hopefully) simple question about installing FreeBSD from floppies. In section 2.2.2, "Before installing from Floppy" of the online installation manual (the URL is: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook13.html#13) it says: "The first floppy that you will need in addition to the boot.flp image is ``floppies/root.flp'', which is somewhat special in that it is not a DOS filesystem floppy at all, but rather a floppy "image" (it's actually a gzip'd cpio file). You can create this floppy in the same way that you created the boot floppy the beginning of this guide . Once this floppy is made, you can go on to make the distribution set floppies using ordinary DOS or UFS (if you are preparing the floppies on another FreeBSD machine) formatted diskettes." Although I have read and understand the section on creating the boot floppy, I am really not sure what "floppies/root.flp" is supposed to contain, nor how to create it. Any help will be much appreciated! Garry Offord -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Garry Offord, Motorola | Internet : offord@cig.mot.com | | Cellular Infrastructure Group | Telephone: (847) 632-6234 | | Arlington Heights, IL | ...all opinions are entirely mine .. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+