From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Nov 17 1:11:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FD3437B405 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 01:11:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA77679; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 01:08:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 01:08:34 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: "Anthony M. Magsino" Cc: Rick van Rein , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting without BIOS support In-Reply-To: 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 On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Anthony M. Magsino wrote: > 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! The two files you need are called kern.flp and mfsroot.flp; they're in the \floppies directory on CD1. (Don't use boot.flp; it's for 2.88 MB floppies.) You want to create the two floppies with the commands: fdimage kern.flp a: and fdimage mfsroot.flp a: The fdimage.exe program is in the \tools directory on CD1, and of course you need to provide full path names. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message