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From: jg@euronet.nl (Jan_Guldemond)
Subject: Re: How do I make boot floppies?
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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!!