Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 14:50:55 +1100 From: Jim Mock <jim@corp.au.triax.com> To: Grinch416@aol.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: files Message-ID: <19990301145055.A2184@corp.au.triax.com> In-Reply-To: <69b65e4c.36da06f4@aol.com> References: <69b65e4c.36da06f4@aol.com>
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[copied back to the questions list..] On Sun, 28 Feb 1999 at 22:18:12 -0500, Grinch416@aol.com wrote: > i already read that all i know is that last time i made a > installation disk for a friend i downloaded 2 files all i am asking > is are there 2 files i need to down load or is there only 1 > now........and believe me i read all or most of the faq's and > handbooks > Please include the list on any replies. Now.. you say you read the handbook, yet if you had, you'd know what you need to get. The following is from the URL I gave you in my last message. The second paragraph at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html says this.. Regardless of the installation media you choose, you can get started by creating the installation disks as described below. Note it says installation _disks_. Further down that page in the instructions, step #3 says this.. 3. If you don't have a CDROM distribution then simply read the installation boot image information to find out what files you need to download first. And the 'installation boot image information' is a link. Clicking on that link takes you to the README.TXT file in the floppies directory on the ftp site. The first two paragraphs read.. For a normal CDROM or network installation, all you need to copy onto actual floppies from this directory are the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp images (for 1.44MB floppies). Get two blank, freshly formatted floppies and image copy kern.flp onto one and mfsroot.flp onto the other. These images are NOT DOS files! You cannot simply copy them to a DOS or UFS floppy as regular files, you need to "image" copy them to the floppy with fdimage.exe under DOS (see the tools/ directory on your CDROM or FreeBSD FTP mirror) or the `dd' command in UNIX. Your answer is right there. You need boot.flp, mfsroot.flp, and fdimage.exe. If you had read like you said you did, you would've known that. Now, I'm not trying to be an asshole or whatever by pointing all of this out, but if you expect others to help you, you need to at least be willing to help yourself, and NOT tell you've read the docs when it's blatantly obvious that you haven't. Sure I could've spoonfed you the answer that you were looking for, but I was hoping that you'd go and find it yourself, since it was right there in the handbook. Btw, the reason this was sent back to questions is hopefully someone else who is in a postition similar to yours will find the answer themselves (especially when it's _easy_ to find) instead of asking and getting a lecture from me on helping themselves if they want help from others =) -- : Jim Mock | [jim@corp.au.triax.com] : : System Administrator | http://www.triax.com/ : : Triax Internet Services | ----------------------------- : : Portland, OR USA | The FreeBSD 'zine : : Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia | http://www.freebsdzine.org/ : : FreeBSD: The Power To Serve | http://www.freebsd.org/ : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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