Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 01:47:28 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: rpj@fep.hirshfields.com (Roger P. Johnson) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.3R/3.4R: can't make it to sysinstall from boot floppies for system install ... Message-ID: <200001100647.BAA02830@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <200001100225.UAA28513@fep.hirshfields.com> from "Roger P. Johnson" at "Jan 9, 2000 08:25:57 pm"
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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
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