From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 8 14:59:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA10A37B66D for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 14:59:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ct-hartford-hiper2193.javanet.com ([209.150.38.195] helo=[209.150.34.209]) by smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #2) id 13iOTL-0000wD-00; Sun, 08 Oct 2000 17:59:07 -0400 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Simon J Mudd From: media@ct1.nai.net Subject: Re: how to make a boot.flp & fixit.flp floppy? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 17:59:07 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:37 PM +0200 10/08/00, Simon J Mudd wrote: > >I've been looking at the section of the handbook related to doing backups. >It mentions copying the boot.flp and fixit.flp images to floppy. > >How do I make these? I don't have them anywhere on my system, and am >currently running Afaik, boot.flp no longer fits on a regular floppy, and has been broken down into kern.flp and mfsroot.flp. Regardless, the floppy images are available wherever you got FreeBSD. If you have a CD-ROM, they are in the directory /floppies along with README.TXT that tells you how to make them. The /tools directory contains a DOS utility called fdimage.exe for making the floppies under DOS. Under FreeBSD try: # dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rfd0 /dev/rfd0 is your A: drive. Then do the same thing for the other two .flp files. >[sjmudd@unicorn sjmudd]$ uname -a >FreeBSD unicorn.ea4els.ampr.org 4.1.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE #0: Sun >Oct 8 16:45:21 CEST 2000 >root@unicorn.ea4els.ampr.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMPZZ i386 > >Thanks for any pointers in what's probably an obvious question. > >Simon >p.s. Shouldn't the handbook be adjusted to give this information? It's on page 32, "2.2.1.1. Creating the Boot Floppies". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message