From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 14 13:40:13 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13020 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:40:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (203-96-92-1.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA12890 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:40:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.210.87]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990114213823.XEH682101.mta1-rme@wocker>; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:38:23 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Michael Jaskowiak Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:38:50 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: bootable floppy Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <369E5F5C.7FF1@interpath.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990114213823.XEH682101.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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