From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 1 21:51:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABED537B502 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 21:51:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com ([64.6.211.149]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sun, 1 Oct 2000 21:49:34 -0700 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e924ofk59753; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 21:50:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 21:50:41 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Dan Nelson Cc: xavian@professional3d.com, Bob Martin , "Albert D. Cahalan" , "Person, Roderick" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: HELP!! creating the boot floppies for freebsd Message-ID: <20001001215040.N25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <39D7C3DF.C0B65C9F@home.com> <20001001182259.B29947@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20001001182259.B29947@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@emsphone.com on Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 06:23:00PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 06:23:00PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 01), xavian anderson macpherson said: > > i have run the commands > > cd /cdrom/floppies > > dd if=mfsroot.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b > > dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs-36b > > how am i supposed to know if it worked without actually REBOOTING.? > > when i do `du', i get `8'; i don't if this is 8 bytes or 8 KBytes. > > how many files are supposed to be copied. this gave 80+0. > > is this correct? > > uuuuh. They're boot floppies. You HAVE to boot them. Nah. You can just mount them and see if the filesystem is OK (the boot floppies have UFS on them afterall), # mount /dev/fd0a /mnt # ls -l /mnt If that works, odds are pretty good your copy procedure was OK. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message