Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 21:32:33 -0400 From: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org, harsha godavari <h.godavari@shaw.ca> Cc: simond@irrelevant.org Subject: Re: Release 4.5 and 4.6 - Boot.flp 2.8 mb? Message-ID: <GA62WTQM64C7WRFBQWVXWLJ07ZU2UT.3d361ab1@sparky> In-Reply-To: <3D3609E8.B2547267@shaw.ca>
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7/17/2002 8:20:56 PM, harsha godavari <h.godavari@shaw.ca> 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
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