Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:30:39 -0700 From: "Joshua Miner" <josh_miner@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Help! Installation Question Message-ID: <BAY1-F16TV5TqlpyvsE0000b940@hotmail.com>
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Help! I am having trouble installing the 5.0 release FreeBSD. I am installing it to its own machine and I have completed the following steps. I do not have a bootable CD Rom drive (though I do have a CD Rom burner), so I have been planning to install from discs. So far I have: 1. Formatted two floppy discs. 2. Downloaded kern.flp and mfsroot.flp to my root c: drive (of a Windows system) 3. Downloaded fdimage to my root c: drive (of a Windows system) 4. Copied kern.flp from the Windows DOS emulator with the command: fdimage kern.flp a: 5. Copied mfsroot.flp from the Windows DOS emulator with the command: fdimage mfsroot.flp a: 6. I turned on the machine to which I will install the OS and ensured that floppy disks were the primary boot mechanism in the setup menu. 7. When I restart the machine with the kern.flp or the mfsroot.flp in the disk drive I get the message “Insert bootable media in the appropriate drive.” Any suggestions? _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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