From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 23 11:29: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mortar.carlson.com (mortar.carlson.com [208.240.12.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5C7514CB9 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:28:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from veldy@visi.com) Received: from mortar.carlson.com (root@localhost) by mortar.carlson.com with ESMTP id NAA02081; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:27:27 -0600 (CST) Received: from w142844 ([172.25.99.35]) by mortar.carlson.com with SMTP id NAA02077; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:27:26 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <01d501be7563$3f4b3ca0$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: , Subject: Re: boot.flp and boot floppies Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:27:52 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Use kern.flp and mfsroot.flp Tom Veldhouse veldy@visi.com -----Original Message----- From: s To: FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 1:21 PM Subject: boot.flp and boot floppies >Dear Folks, > >Because I have several hard drives with several versions of FreeBSD for >experimental purposes I use boot floppies for better control. I am >having a problem with revision 3.1 because I cannot create a boot floppy >on an ordinary 1.4 MB set of floppies. The floppy image is about 2.9 >MB, and of course will not fit on a single floppy. When I use fdimage, >I immediately get a diagnostic reminding me of this. > >Is there a version of fdimage or other utility that is built to split up >the boot disk into 2 usable floppies? > >I contacted the technical support line, and they said that this was a >new question to which they did not have an answer. They suggested that >I mail you. > >I am writing an article on using FreeBSD for our scientific software Web >page to entice people to try FreeBSD, along with some other promotional >efforts I am trying for FreeBSD. > >Thanks for your kind attention and a wonderful operating system. > >Best regards, >Steve Ellis > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message