Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 07:37:23 -0600 (MDT) From: Bill Lee <billlee@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> To: Eric & Rae <echet@coil.com> Cc: questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: rawrite utility for os2? Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.950422072521.54337A-100000@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <199504200453.AAA09608@bronze.coil.com>
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On Thu, 20 Apr 1995, Eric & Rae wrote:
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD but I don't have rawrite to decompress
> the floppies. I found the IBM utility LoadDskF it worked fine on the boot disk
> but won't work on cpio. Does anybody know of another utility that will work
> under Warp or (Warp dos) with will write cpio.flp? I have the FreeBSD binaries
> already downloaded.
Eric,
When I installed FreeBSD from the CD, I simply used the MAKEFLP.BAT in the
root directory of the CD from an OS/2 DOS session. It worked like a
champ. Here's the content of MAKEFLP.BAT; it uses a DOS version of
rawrite which I expect you can FTP from wherever you got the kernal.
echo off
echo Prepare two fresh 1.44MB floppies and format them BOTH when format is
echo invoked for you. When done, exit format and label one "boot" and
echo the other "cpio".
echo
format a:
echo Please insert the boot floppy
pause
tools\dos_tool\rawrite floppies\boot.flp a
echo Please remove the boot floppy and insert the cpio floppy
pause
tools\dos_tool\rawrite floppies\cpio.flp a:
echo Done! When you are ready to install, reinsert the boot floppy
and
echo reset the machine.
pause
echo on
BTW, I can confirm that the OS/2 boot manager will boot a FreeBSD partition
just fine, in case you were wondering. <<Bill>>
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Bill Lee E-mail: billlee@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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