Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:55:27 -0500 From: "Charlie Schloemer" <charlie@infoworks.net> To: xavian@professional3d.com, Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: Bob Martin <bob@buckhorn.net>, "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>, "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HELP!! creating the boot floppies for freebsd Message-ID: <200010021554.KAA22021@smtp.intop.net> 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
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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
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