From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 5 4:47:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from filer.fr.clara.net (filer.fr.clara.net [212.43.194.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F8A337B424; Sat, 5 May 2001 04:47:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@fr.clara.net) Received: from munster.noc.fr.clara.net (munster.noc.fr.clara.net [212.43.195.20]) by filer.fr.clara.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1163D2F4A; Sat, 5 May 2001 13:47:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 13:47:02 +0200 (CEST) From: James Tapping X-Sender: james@munster.noc.fr.clara.net To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd bootdisk Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello I am new too FreeBSD and coming from the linux world...I have an old 486 machine that I use as a NAT gateway using Debian Linux, and I have never managed to get the machine to boot from the harddrive (even after using a /boot partition etc), so i quite happily use a boot-diskette. So my question is what and how does one do the equivalent thing in FreeBSD? Yes, I have tried installing a FreeBSD on the machine and it doesn't want to boot either, the machine justs asks for a diskette (nothing in the bios settings either, its an IBM 433 DXS) Any ideas? Thanks James please reply personally as I am not subscribed to questions@ on newbies cheers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message