From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 23:33:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.svr.pol.co.uk (mail5.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A653F37B403 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 23:33:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dvdnews.co.uk) Received: from modem-206.magnesium.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.11.206] helo=mark2) by mail5.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 15AnAU-0002lQ-00; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 07:33:19 +0100 Message-ID: <037701c0f565$1041bea0$0200a8c0@mark2> From: "Mark Hughes" To: "moulay3451" , References: <000a01c0f575$03f5e800$8ff31e3f@hppav> Subject: Re: floppies/kern.flp and floppies/mfs.flp Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 07:33:16 +0100 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 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You should be able to use the program "fdimage" included in (from memory) the tools directory on the CD to "image" the floppy discs with these images. From http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/install-guide.html : ------------------------------------------------ a.. Write the image files to the floppy disks. The image files, such as kern.flp, are not regular files you copy to the disk. Instead, they are images of the complete contents of the disk. This means that you can not use commands like DOS' copy to write the files. Instead, you must use specific tools to write the images directly to the disk. If you are creating the floppies on a computer running DOS then we provide a tool to do this called fdimage. If you are using the floppies from the CD-ROM, and your CD-ROM is the E: drive then you would run this: E:\> tools\fdimage floppies\kern.flp A: Repeat this command for each .flp file, replacing the floppy disk each time. Adjust the command line as necessary, depending on where you have placed the .flp files. If you do not have the CD-ROM then fdimage can be downloaded from the tools directory on the FreeBSD FTP site. ----------------------------------------- Hope this helps, Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "moulay3451" To: Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 9:27 AM Subject: floppies/kern.flp and floppies/mfs.flp I bought your software accompagned with your book "The Complete FreeBSD by 'Greg Lehey' 3rd Edition. Page 64 "Preparing a boot floppy talks about copying from the CD to two floppies the following files: - floppies/kern.flp - floppies/mfsroot.flp in order to boot the system from the disks. Unfortunatly each file is larger that 1.40MB (3 1/2 disk). Downloading those file from your site is impossible too since the size is larger that a disk. What would you suggest, knowing that my system cannot boot from the CD. thank you for your concern. Idriss Moulay E-mail: Moulay345@Yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message