Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 15:59:11 +0100 From: jg@euronet.nl (Jan_Guldemond) To: Rob.deFriesse@cadre.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How do I make boot floppies? Message-ID: <199503221459.PAA20043@mail.euronet.nl>
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> >I just acquired FreeBSD 2.0 in it's entirety from Walnut Creek via >ftp. I now need to make the floppies needed to start the >installation. These are made from the files in the "floppies" sub >directory. I know I can use DOS to make these, but it would be a >little easier for me to make them on my sun (Solaris) at work. > >The installation notes for FreeBSD 1.1.5 included a "dd" command to do >this. I could not find this command in any of the documentation files >in the 2.0 distribution. Can this be done? If so, could someone tell >me how, or at least where I can find this information? I created these disks using: cat ?????.flp > /dev/fd0 This probably isn't the suggested way but it works!!
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