From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 17:20: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 670F437B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 17:19:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pd4mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (h24-71-223-10.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA0B43E58 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 17:19:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from h.godavari@shaw.ca) Received: from pd5mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr3so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.144]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0GZF00G5K4XAV5@l-daemon> for questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:19:58 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml4so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml4so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.148]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0GZF00L964XAZL@l-daemon> for questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:19:58 -0600 (MDT) Received: from shaw.ca (h24-66-68-10.wp.shawcable.net [24.66.68.10]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0GZF00A024X9WJ@l-daemon> for questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:19:58 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 19:20:56 -0500 From: harsha godavari Subject: Re: Release 4.5 and 4.6 - Boot.flp 2.8 mb? To: questions@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <3D3609E8.B2547267@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win95; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en References: <20020717193908.GA6525@irrelevant.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Simon: I prepared both kern.flp & mfsroot.flp. When i tried to format one of those into a DOS bootdisk, it was formatted but without the system files. Scandisk showed sectors marked "bad". The disk was unbootable. Is there anyway that that disk can be cleaned up? Regards Harsha Godavari Simon Dick wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 07:26:27PM +0000, Richard Durham wrote: > > > > I have checked both releases 4.5 and 4.6, the boot.flp file is 2.8mb?? How > > can that be transferred to a single floppy? > > I've searched everywhere and found no answers. > > When trying to copy to a floppy Rawrite just registers an error - bad > > sector: 1 > > > > Should the file be split and if so how? > > The 2.88mb floppy image is usually used to boot the cdrom, or for people > with 2.88mb floppy drives. If you have the more common 1.44mb one then > you need to write kern.flp and mfsroot.flp to seperate floppies. > > -- > Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message