From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 2 8:53:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.intop.net (smtp.intop.net [206.156.254.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44DD137B502 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 08:53:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from charlie (iwkcpe.intop.net [208.149.79.30]) by smtp.intop.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA22021; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:54:20 -0500 Message-Id: <200010021554.KAA22021@smtp.intop.net> From: "Charlie Schloemer" To: xavian@professional3d.com, Dan Nelson Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:55:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: HELP!! creating the boot floppies for freebsd Cc: Bob Martin , "Albert D. Cahalan" , "Person, Roderick" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" In-reply-to: <20001001182259.B29947@dan.emsphone.com> References: <39D7C3DF.C0B65C9F@home.com>; from "xavian anderson macpherson" on Sun Oct 1 16:08:15 GMT 2000 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 1 Oct 00, at 18:23, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 01), xavian anderson macpherson said: > > i have run the commands > > cd /cdrom/floppies > > dd if=mfsroot.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b > > dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs-36b > > how am i supposed to know if it worked without actually REBOOTING.? > > when i do `du', i get `8'; i don't if this is 8 bytes or 8 KBytes. > > how many files are supposed to be copied. this gave 80+0. > > is this correct? > > uuuuh. They're boot floppies. You HAVE to boot them. In my experience, if dd has a problem with your disks, you'll see some ugly messages in /var/log/messages that are very conspicuous and self-explanatory. If you haven't changed syslog.conf around, they'll also be appearing on your console. -charlie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message