From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 19:38:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.getnet.net (mail.getnet.net [63.137.32.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA9A337B409 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 19:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 2258 invoked from network); 8 May 2002 02:38:22 -0000 Received: from 216-19-216-10.getnet.net (HELO sunny.localdomain) (216.19.216.10) by 0 with SMTP; 8 May 2002 02:38:22 -0000 Received: (from rooot@localhost) by sunny.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g482bhv01638 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 7 May 2002 19:37:43 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from swive@getnet.com) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 19:37:43 -0700 From: VB To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: floppy install Message-ID: <20020507193743.A1618@sunny.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I did the boot disk as per the instructions in the FBSD manual. The command I used was "dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/rfd0". The a: drive whisked and whirred for a while and it seemed like everything was ok. (The purpose of making the disk was to do a floppy install.) The manual said that I should reboot to that floppy, and after 5 sec's or so it would boot to the default install screen. Well I did all that and I could not get past "boot:". I tried "single", "kernel" "help" "?" and so on but nothing happened. If my cdrom is broken, and I want to install via floppy/ftp, was I following the right directions? If not, where are the instructions to follow please, or if I missed a step, what was it? Thank you, Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message