From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 16 9:14:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AA29155BB for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:14:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11yeUJ-000E9B-00; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:14:47 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA01698; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:14:47 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:14:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Michael Nolan Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy installation In-Reply-To: <19991216170340.17721.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Michael Nolan wrote: >After following the instructions I checked the disk and it is blank ,or, >seems to be blank. >Is there anything wrong with this procedure? If you used fdimage correctly, that should work fine. Since it's not a DOS disk, and Windows is pretty stupid when it comes to other file systems, it thinks it's a blank disk and wants to format it. Just enable floppy boot option in your BIOS (i imagine a 486 already has it turned on anyway ;-) and boot 'er up! -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message