From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 28 09:47:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA22935 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:47:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles337.castles.com [208.214.167.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA22926 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:47:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA03801; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:44:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810281744.JAA03801@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jim King cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Oct 1998 07:49:22 CST." <199810281349.HAA19410@oasis.zycor.lgc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:44:32 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Has anybody had any luck using boot.flp on a Zip drive? Mine stopped and > asked for the "floppy containing mfsroot.gz", then complained it couldn't > find /mfsroot.gz, then hung. (This is off the 10-27 snapshot on > mirrors.rcn.com.) That's the kern.flp image you're booting there. You need a disk with the mfsroot.gz image on it to. > Is the procedure for installing using the NetBSD boot floppy documented > anywhere? I don't have any problem booting it and going through the file > system setup, but I don't know what to do next. I detailed it a few days back. But if the snapshot you're installing is up to date, I would go back and put the mfsroot.gz file on a disk and work with that. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message