From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 9 22:43:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A38314EA9 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:43:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA02830; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 01:47:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <200001100647.BAA02830@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: 3.3R/3.4R: can't make it to sysinstall from boot floppies for system install ... In-Reply-To: <200001100225.UAA28513@fep.hirshfields.com> from "Roger P. Johnson" at "Jan 9, 2000 08:25:57 pm" To: rpj@fep.hirshfields.com (Roger P. Johnson) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 01:47:28 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roger P. Johnson wrote, > Hi, > > I have both the Walnut Creek CD-ROM FreeBSD 3.3 and FreeBSD 3.4 Release. > I am unable to get to the sysinstall program to install FreeBSD when > booting for either fresh install or upgrade. I don't get that far. > > Here's how I made my boot floppies from CD-ROM for both releases: > > dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rsd0 > dd if=mfsroot.flp of=/dev/rsd0 ^^^^ I assume that's a typo for /dev/rfd0. Or do you have that rarest of breeds, a SCSI 1.44M drive. [snip] Were the disks "factoru formatted?" Don't trust factory formatting for boot disks. Reformat the disks then re-write the boot floppy images and give it another go. If you formatted them yourself... *shrug* -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message