From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 1 16:23:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42BB237B502 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 16:23:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA01064; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:00 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: xavian@professional3d.com Cc: Bob Martin , "Albert D. Cahalan" , "Person, Roderick" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: HELP!! creating the boot floppies for freebsd Message-ID: <20001001182259.B29947@dan.emsphone.com> References: <39D7C3DF.C0B65C9F@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.9i In-Reply-To: <39D7C3DF.C0B65C9F@home.com>; from "xavian anderson macpherson" on Sun Oct 1 16:08:15 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 01), xavian anderson macpherson said: > i have run the commands > cd /cdrom/floppies > dd if=mfsroot.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b > dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs-36b > how am i supposed to know if it worked without actually REBOOTING.? > when i do `du', i get `8'; i don't if this is 8 bytes or 8 KBytes. > how many files are supposed to be copied. this gave 80+0. > is this correct? uuuuh. They're boot floppies. You HAVE to boot them. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message