From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Nov 16 20:22:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from kulog.upm.edu.ph (kulog.upm.edu.ph [165.220.24.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE73A37B418 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 20:21:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from kulog.upm.edu.ph [165.220.24.62] (ammag) by kulog.upm.edu.ph with smtp (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 164vnw-0001le-00; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 11:06:04 +0800 Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 11:06:03 +0800 (PHT) From: "Anthony M. Magsino" X-Sender: ammag@kulog.upm.edu.ph To: Rick van Rein Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Booting without BIOS support In-Reply-To: <200111161332.fAGDWaI13496@theatre.cs.utwente.nl.> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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