From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 6 14:44:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA26935 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 14:44:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26926 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 14:44:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jer@mercury.jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA03294; Wed, 6 May 1998 16:44:49 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 16:44:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner Reply-To: Jeremy Shaffner To: Cole Just cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: trouble installing FreeBSD via MSDOS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You should read the instructions on the site completely. from http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html -- 4.Make the installation boot disk from the image file: If you are using MS-DOS then download fdimage.exe or get it from tools\fdimage.exe on the CDROM and then run it like so: E:\> tools\fdimage floppies\boot.flp a: The fdimage program will format the A: drive and then copy the boot.flp image onto it (assuming that you're at the top level of a FreeBSD distribution and the floppy images live in the floppies subdirectory, as is typically the case). -- In your case it'd be C:\FREEBSD>fdimage boot.flp a: [-dsqv] is not a literal argument, but a list of options. -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- On Wed, 6 May 1998, Cole Just wrote: > I recently downloaded the boot.flp file from the freeBSD web page(From the > Easy to Install, these directions section of your FreeBSD home page). I read > your instructions for downloading a copy of FreeBSD (which is what I'm trying > to do) and was unsuccessful still. My problem arose when I tried to use your > program fdimage.exe to copy the boot.flp to my 3.5 floppy drive(a:) while in > MSDOS mode. I copied both files, boot.flp, and fdimage.exe to a subdirectory, > FREEBSD as you explained in the Installing in MSDOS helpful hints section of > the Installing FreeBSD web page. So while in MSDOS mode, I was in C:FREEBSD> > and ran the program, fdimage.exe. It displayed > Usage fdimage [-dsqv] [-f size] [r ?] file drive > So I typed > C:FREEBSD>fdimage [-dsqv] boot.flp a: > But unfortunately, that did not work. So I am writing you in hope of a > solution. Your response Is awaited and anticipated. > > Thanks, > Cole > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message