From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 4: 3:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE6F437B405 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 04:03:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 25189 invoked by uid 0); 8 Mar 2002 12:03:43 -0000 Received: from tk212017108240.univie.teleweb.at (HELO Deadcell.ant) (212.17.108.240) by mail.gmx.net (mp015-rz3) with SMTP; 8 Mar 2002 12:03:43 -0000 Received: (from ant@localhost) by Deadcell.ant (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g28C3fC96926; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 13:03:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ant) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 13:03:41 +0100 From: Andreas Ntaflos To: hedpi Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting from floppy Message-ID: <20020308130341.A96468@Deadcell.ant> Mail-Followup-To: hedpi , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1015564825.3946.5.camel@galaxy.homelinux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1015564825.3946.5.camel@galaxy.homelinux.org>; from hedpi@galaxy.homelinux.org on Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:20:25AM -0500 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 On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:20:25AM -0500, hedpi wrote: > My old pc is a p100 with 16 mb ram, and a 1.6 GB hard drive. > It doesnt support booting from the cdrom, so i: > > dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 > > and the same for mfsroot.flp > > then, i boot with the kern disk on, then it asks me for the mfsroot > disk, and when i insert it, and press enter, the message > "cant find /mfsroot" appears on the screen. Maybe the mfsroot image you downloaded is corrupt or somehow else damaged, have you tried another one? Try downloading the most recent images from ftp://releng4.freebsd.org. There you have daily snapshots of 4.5-STABLE. HTH regards -- Andreas "ant" Ntaflos ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net Vienna, AUSTRIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message