From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 4 19:12:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from omahpop1.omah.uswest.net (omahpop1.omah.uswest.net [204.26.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C48237B71A for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 19:12:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hey9811@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 89727 invoked by alias); 5 Mar 2001 03:12:16 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-stable@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 89717 invoked by uid 0); 5 Mar 2001 03:12:15 -0000 Received: from omah6400gw2poolc176.omah.uswest.net (HELO ?10.0.0.2?) (63.227.158.176) by omahpop1.omah.uswest.net with SMTP; 5 Mar 2001 03:12:15 -0000 Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 21:08:36 -0600 (CST) From: Virtual Bob X-X-Sender: To: Mike Smith Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Subject: Re: where's /usr/mdec?? In-Reply-To: <200103050223.f252Noj26194@mass.dis.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I'm trying to make a bootable floppy, and, well, docs left and right > > reference this /usr/mdec. Anyway, on my 3.5-stable, it's empty; and on my > > 4.2-stable /usr/mdec is totally absent. > > > > So exactly how do I get the contents to /usr/mdec? > > You don't. /usr/mdec has been deprecated for several years. > > What documentation are you reading that points you there? Most of what > used to be there is now in /boot. Dang. Didn't know that. I searched Yahoo to see what ways are there to create bootable FreeBSD diskettes. BUnch of hits came up. For example, one says: # format floppy fdformat fd0 # place boot blocks disklabel -w -B -b /usr/mdec/fdboot -s /usr/mdec/bootfd /dev/rfd0 fd1440 # newfs & partition newfs -t... # mount floppy & create directories mount... ...And so on. I sure scratched my oh-so-short beard trying to figure out how to get /usr/mdec/*. I see boot0, boot1, and that humongous boot2 in /boot. How do I use those? Or has everything changed in regard to make a bootable floppy? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message