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From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah)
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If memory serves me right, lucius milliinder wrote:
> If you don't know the first thing about creating an "image copy," to use
> your venacular, your handbk on FREEBSD installs is useless!

I'm rather puzzled because, several years ago, I learned how to do my
first FreeBSD install from the handbook.  Looking at the Handbook on
the FreeBSD web site, section 2 ("Installing FreeBSD"), I see some
text that reads in part:

> 4. Make the installation boot disks from the image files: 
> 
> If you are using MS-DOS then download fdimage.exe or get it from
> tools\fdimage.exe on the CDROM and then run it like so:
> 
> 
>                     E:\> tools\fdimage floppies\kern.flp a:
> 
> The fdimage program will format the A: drive and then copy the
> kern.flp image onto it (assuming that you're at the top level of a
> FreeBSD distribution and the floppy images live in the floppies
> subdirectory, as is typically the case). Do the same for the
> mfsroot.flp image and you're set.

[remainder snipped]

What part of this was unclear, and do you have any thoughts as to how
it could be presented more clearly?

Bruce.


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