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"Brent E. Waldrep" <bwaldrep@lbtech.net> writes:

> First thing, I know very little about Free BSD and Unix and Lunix
> 
> I have just got a server off Ebay, and would like to install Free BSD on it.
> However, I'm getting stuck on the very first step, The bootable floppy disk.
> 
> I have downloaded both mfsroot.flp and kern.flp, svaed them on a machine
> using win95. From there I go into MSDOS and at the c:\windows prompt type in
> fdimage kern.flp a: and is says bad command.
> 
> What am I missing, and sorry this is such a basic question.

You need to download fdimage as well.
According to the installation directions for FreeBSD 4.8, it can be
found here:
 ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/