From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 18:32:16 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 5C2EE37B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:32:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01A8B43E42 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:32:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from dialup-63.214.192.211.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([63.214.192.211] helo=sparky) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17V09J-000655-00; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:32:10 -0700 From: Jud To: questions@FreeBSD.org, harsha godavari Cc: simond@irrelevant.org Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 21:32:33 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <3D3609E8.B2547267@shaw.ca> Message-Id: Subject: Re: Release 4.5 and 4.6 - Boot.flp 2.8 mb? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Opera 6.04 build 1135 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 7/17/2002 8:20:56 PM, harsha godavari wrote: >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 >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 Whoa there, Harsha - kern.flp and mfsroot.flp will take care of booting your machine into a FreeBSD installation all by themselves. No DOS boot disk required. (Yes, operating systems other than Windows - FreeBSD, Linux, etc. - can boot your computer.:) Just two freshly formatted *empty* disks are required on which to image (with the fdimage utility) kern.flp and mfsroot.flp. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message