From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Oct 16 4:27:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (sol.cc.u-szeged.hu [160.114.8.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA03737B66C for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 04:26:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from petra.hos.u-szeged.hu by sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (8.9.3+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id NAA05791; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:24:43 +0200 (MEST) Received: from sziszi by petra.hos.u-szeged.hu with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13l8ND-0002kP-00; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:24:07 +0200 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:24:07 +0200 From: Szilveszter Adam To: engp9360 Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: problem in creating the installation floppies Message-ID: <20001016132407.L4302@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mail-Followup-To: engp9360 , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org References: <39EADD66.8B417C57@nus.edu.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <39EADD66.8B417C57@nus.edu.sg>; from engp9360@nus.edu.sg on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:50:14PM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:50:14PM +0800, engp9360 wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam: > > I'm just about to install FreeBSD on my PC. When copying image file to > make the boot disk, the file boot.flp is too big for a floppy disk, then > how can i make the installation floppies? > > Thanks for answering such a simple question for an beginner. You should use the kern.flp and the mfsroot.flp images instead. You will need two floppies. After copying the images to them, boot from kern.flp first and when it asks for it, insert mfsroot.flp. Wish you good luck with FreeBSD and please, in the future direct such questions to questions@freebsd.org. Thank you! Good luck! [Note to -doc: Shouldn't we change the name of boot.flp? It is more than confusing. But I do not know the El Torrito standard enough to know if it this name is necessary...] -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Szeged University Szeged Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message