From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 27 0: 9:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imo19.mx.aol.com (imo19.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 207D937B91E for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 00:09:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from BrentAHughes@aol.com) Received: from BrentAHughes@aol.com by imo19.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v27.9.) id n.c5.5f1413f (3956) for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 03:09:42 -0400 (EDT) From: BrentAHughes@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 03:09:42 EDT Subject: boot floppies To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 104 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have tried the following procedure about 10 or 15 times in a number of ways and I cannot get it to work.... I used Winimage to extract the iso file to my hard drive on my win98 box. I also used NTI cd-Maker to create a cd from the iso. I am using the 4.0 iso image release. I have tried to create the floppies from the extraction on my hard drive and from the cd I created. Neither has worked. The machine that I want to install the OS on is not cd-Rom bootable. It is an old 486 w/ 2x cd-Rom. The kern.flp and mfsroot.flp files appear too large to install on floppies anyway as they are 1.47 megs plus. I do not understand.... For a normal CDROM or network installation, all you need to copy onto actual floppies from this directory are the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp images (for 1.44MB floppies). Get two blank, freshly formatted floppies and image copy kern.flp onto one and mfsroot.flp onto the other. These images are NOT DOS files! You cannot simply copy them to a DOS or UFS floppy as regular files, you need to "image" copy them to the floppy with fdimage.exe under DOS (see the tools/ directory on your CDROM or FreeBSD FTP mirror) or the `dd' command in UNIX. For example: To create the kern floppy image from DOS, you'd do something like this: C> fdimage kern.flp a: Assuming that you'd copied fdimage.exe and kern.flp into a directory somewhere. You would do the same for mfsroot.flp, of course. I have gotten general protection faults. I've had DOS accept the command and then not do anything. Etc etc... I don't have a running Unix box on which to create the boot floppies in any other manner. Please advise. And I hope your advice isn't "Buy the package from so-and-so cdRom company for $39.95." Thanks in advance for any help To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message