From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 11 15: 4:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.intop.net (smtp.intop.net [206.156.254.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E4B237B502 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:04:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from charlie (iwkcpe.intop.net [208.149.79.30]) by smtp.intop.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA04193; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:05:39 -0500 Message-Id: <200010112205.RAA04193@smtp.intop.net> From: "Charlie Schloemer" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Ken Gage Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:09:22 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: HELP..! In-reply-to: <39E4B6DD.DA552086@Wigwamresort.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11 Oct 00, at 11:52, Ken Gage wrote: > 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. > Can you please send me either the files needed for this boot disk or > help me find the site that walks me through the process of making the > two boot disks. > Last time I made that disk it asked me my (dns, gateway, Subnet, IP) So > on and it worked great. Please advise. I have a Redhat Server right now > and I was considering building another server using FreeBSD. Ken, you'll need two boot disks. Make sure they're 100% good, because there's no tolerance during the install. You have to get kern.flp on one disk, and mfsroot.flp on the other. These two should be available from ftp.freesoftware.com. From your Red Hat machine, you can copy these images to the floppy's using: dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 From a Windows/DOS machine, you'll need to pick up another utility from the FTP site called RAWRITE.EXE, which has similar syntax and will perform this purpose. Of course, the easiest method for FreeBSD install is to purchase the CD set and just boot from the first CD, provided your CDROM can do El Torito. HTH, -Charlie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message