From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 25 21: 6:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1A3C37B403 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 21:06:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7Q46UQ17021; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 22:06:30 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200108260406.f7Q46UQ17021@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Wes Baehr Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot floopies In-Reply-To: From: Chris Fedde Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 22:06:30 -0600 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 Sat, 25 Aug 2001 23:39:13 -0400 Wes Baehr wrote: +------------------ | I created the 2 boot floppies (kern.flp, and mfsroot.flp) on my FreeBSD box | using dd, in hopes on starting them on my Packard Bell to use an FTP install | to my current FreeBSD computer because that computer has no CD-Rom. | The kern.flp boots fine, but after trying to load the MFS Root floppy, i get | these messages: +------------------ Floppy disks are notoriously poor media. Never trust the factory format. Always reformat them using fdormat and throw away disks that do not format perfectly. Good Luck -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message