From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 30 23:28:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E888D14F9E for ; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 23:28:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.128]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990501063045.LHVG7099562.mta2-rme@wocker>; Sat, 1 May 1999 18:30:45 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Kent Stewart Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 18:28:44 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: boot floopies problems Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <372A8D24.E6D15F56@3-cities.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990501063045.LHVG7099562.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30 Apr 99, at 22:12, Kent Stewart wrote: > Nope! I used dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rfdo and it required 48 sec and > transfered data at 30KB/sec. I could then boot from that floppy. The > example in the cdrom /floppies suggest /dev/rfdo or /dev/floppy and in my > case the /dev/rfd0 booted. Well, I now suspect my floppy drive. I used another machine, and it worked fine. Thanks for the help. /me withdraws sheepishly. -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message