Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:38:50 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: Michael Jaskowiak <skovian@interpath.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bootable floppy Message-ID: <19990114213823.XEH682101.mta1-rme@wocker> In-Reply-To: <369E5F5C.7FF1@interpath.com>
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On 14 Jan 99, at 16:19, Michael Jaskowiak wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Michael Jaskowiak and I have been using FreeBSD for about two > years. I am trying to make a FreeBSD bootable disk (2.2.8) that will > allow me to mount a CD and untar files from it. Before going further, I > will add that I have had no luck whatsoever with the PicoBSD floppies of > any version. When I try to make them, I can never get them to boot. > Anyway, the floppy that I am trying to build is the same one that is in > the handbook (www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook139.html#267). I tried the same thing last night. No success either. So I resorted to the instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook7.html. See #4 on that page. I was able to get a bootable floppy that way. hope that helps. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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