Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:51:28 -0500 From: Lucas Bergman <iceberg@pobox.com> To: Ken Gage <KGage@Wigwamresort.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot floppy (Was: HELP..!) Message-ID: <20001011145128.A72319@comp04.prc.uic.edu> In-Reply-To: <39E4B6DD.DA552086@Wigwamresort.com>; from KGage@Wigwamresort.com on Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:52:13AM -0700 References: <39E4B6DD.DA552086@Wigwamresort.com>
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> I am looking for a boot disk that will allow me to boot up my PC and
> load settings for the network card and ftp to your site and install
> FREEBSD.
>
> I have done this once before and I am trying to remember how I did
> this.
FTP anonymously to FTP.FREEBSD.ORG and get the files
/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.1.1-RELEASE/floppies/{kern,mfsroot}.flp
Use `dd' on your Linux box to write these to (high density) floppies:
# dd if=/path/to/kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=512
# dd if=/path/to/mfsroot.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=512
Then, boot off the kern.flp floppy and insert the mfsroot.flp disk
when it asks. This will automatically start the installation program
once its finished booting.
Lucas
P.S. Try a better subject line on your message next time. I and many
others are happy to help, but we have to scan a lot of these messages,
so an ambiguous subject line is a good way to get ignored.
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