Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 11:06:03 +0800 (PHT) From: "Anthony M. Magsino" <ammag@mail.upm.edu.ph> To: Rick van Rein <vanrein@cs.utwente.nl> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Booting without BIOS support Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1011117110259.6170A-100000@kulog.upm.edu.ph> In-Reply-To: <200111161332.fAGDWaI13496@theatre.cs.utwente.nl.>
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Hi Rick, This is Anthony from the Philippines. Try copying *.img's (mfs.img and kernel.img, i think) from CD1 unto DOS formatted floppies. You should be able to boot from them. Good luck! On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Rick van Rein wrote: > Hi, > > I installed FreeBSD on a SCSI disk, to replace the Linux system that was on > it before. > > The SCSI controller I use is supported by FreeBSD, but it does not come > with boot options, so I must use a boot floppy, and under Linux that always > worked fine. > > To my surprise however, I was not offered (or? I did not find?) a chance to > create a boot disk. > > Is there a place where I can download one or two floppies to start FreeBSD > from? I have the full 4.4 CD set but it's not on there, is it? > > > Thanx for any help! > > Rick van Rein. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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