From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Nov 7 9:40: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14FA037B405; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 09:40:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.46.72]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA5F84; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 09:40:02 -0800 Message-ID: <3BE971EF.D352D96@acuson.com> Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 09:39:59 -0800 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installation Problem - Hardware Detection References: <20011106223009.C1061-100000@master.gorean.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Barton wrote: > In all honesty, running a Unix system requires a little more > attention to detail than this. Even if you don't understand the names, > just looking at the size of the files should give you all the clue you > need. I remember trying to create a boot floppy off of a 2.88 image. It took me the longest time to figure out the problem, because one normally doesn't expect a floppy image to be any larger than 1.44. Why should I have looked at the sizes? I had already made the kern and mfsroot floppies because I had read the instructions which said to create them. But it wasn't entirely clear from the instructions (as a newbie) that "kern" equates to "boot". David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message