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>  - Boot the install floppy.

i presume you mean the kern.flp floppy.

> When the little spinning widget appears 
> and stops, hit the spacebar.  At the 'boot:" prompt, type 
>      wd(0,a)/boot/loader

    Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x1388b3c)
    Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x1388b3c)
    No /boot/loader

should i not be telling it that it's the second slice in some way?

>  - Once you're up and running, read the manpage for boot0inst.

as i have a bunch of other 3.3-stable systems, i read it there.

> You want to install boot0 on wd0, and enable the 'packet' option.

cool.  where are docs on the 'packet option'?

and, btw, whoppened to http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/FTL/bootstrap.txt,
where i usually start boot research?

randy


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