Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:00 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: xavian@professional3d.com Cc: Bob Martin <bob@buckhorn.net>, "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>, "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HELP!! creating the boot floppies for freebsd Message-ID: <20001001182259.B29947@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <39D7C3DF.C0B65C9F@home.com>; from "xavian anderson macpherson" on Sun Oct 1 16:08:15 GMT 2000 References: <39D7C3DF.C0B65C9F@home.com>
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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
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