From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 14 13:45:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D12037B401 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:45:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4163243F3F for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:45:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from carsten@realityblur.com) Received: from [212.227.126.161] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18jneX-0006FN-00; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 22:45:49 +0100 Received: from [217.235.9.65] (helo=zeus) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18jneX-0001xk-00; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 22:45:49 +0100 From: "c a r s t e n" To: "Bill Moran" , "Joshua Miner" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 22:46:30 +0100 X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2711) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195;3) In-Reply-To: <3E4D623F.1000900@potentialtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Help! Installation Question Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG | > 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) | | What kind of Windows (NT, 2000, 95?) | I seem to remember a good bit of trouble getting fdimage to work | on certain hardware under Windows NT (although it's been a while). | fdimage has a number of command line switches ... one of them | solved the problem. I seem to remember something about single- | sector writing or something (it's been a while) | Don't know if this is your problem or not, but report the OS that | you're creating the images from, and check out 'fdimage /?' (I | believe) will give you a list of switches and their meanings. i used a program called ntrawrite.exe. worked like a charm. win2k. c c "man kan tune et filsystem, men man kan ikke tunfisk", bsd tunefs manpage To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message