From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 7 15:13:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15866 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 May 1998 15:13:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15825 for ; Thu, 7 May 1998 15:12:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jer@mercury.jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA03181; Thu, 7 May 1998 17:12:33 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 17:12:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner To: Cole Just cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about the 3.5" 1.44MB boot disk In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It created a FreeBSD formatted floppy, not a DOS floppy, so of course it Windows can't see anything on it. It's for booting, not browsing with Windows Explorer. :) -Jeremy -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- On Thu, 7 May 1998, Cole Just wrote: > I recently e mailed you about the fdimage file and got a quick helpful > response. But I'm sorry to inform you that immediately after I ran the > fdimage file to copy the boot.flp file to my 3.5" 1.44MB disk, I wanted to see > if it copied anything or not. So I went to my windows explorer and tried to > explore the A drive. A message appeared that Disk in Drive A was not > formatted, do you want to format now? I then checked the Properties of the A: > drive and a pie showed that I had no free space on the disk in drive A, yet it > displayed that there were 0 bytes in the used space, or the free space. So in > other words, the file was not copied. > I need some help. I would really like to get my freeebsd os up and running. > Again your response is anticipated. > > Thanks, > Cole > > We work in the dark > We do what we can > We give what we have > Our doubt is our passion, > And our passion is our task > The rest is the madness of art. > > -- Henry James > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message