From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 28 20:31:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3829316A4CE for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:31:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web.lomag.net (web.lomag.net [208.185.81.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA74443D41 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:31:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flint@virtualflu.com) Received: (qmail 46451 invoked by uid 98); 28 Aug 2004 20:31:58 -0000 Received: from flint@virtualflu.com by web.lomag.net by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.20st (clamuko: 0.67. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:RC:1(151.197.126.157):. Processed in 0.075593 secs); 28 Aug 2004 20:31:58 -0000 Received: from pool-151-197-126-157.phil.east.verizon.net (HELO ?192.168.1.2?) (151.197.126.157) by 0 with SMTP; 28 Aug 2004 20:31:57 -0000 Message-ID: <4130EBB7.9090309@virtualflu.com> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 16:31:51 -0400 From: Matthew Crowe User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: newfs_msdos bootstrap file X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:31:59 -0000 Hi All, In the newfs_msdos(8) man page, there is a -B option to add a bootstrap from a file. How do you generate this bootstrap? I wanted to make a FAT32 filesystem that Windows or Dos could boot, from freebsd. Newfs_msdos creates the filesystem just fine.. it just won't boot anything :) Thanks, Matt