From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 22 17:45:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12538 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 17:45:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from send1b.yahoomail.com (send1b.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA12525 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 17:45:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rgireyev@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19980123013808.10832.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com> Received: from [156.153.255.234] by send1b; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 17:38:08 PST Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 17:38:08 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev Subject: Re: installation boot disk To: lamofor@glam.ac.uk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Linus these problems usually happen when fdimage is run in a DOS window. Try running it in a full screen DOS or maybe even booting to a DOS floppy. Rudy ---"Mofor L A (SoBE)" wrote: > > Hello. > > I have been trying to create an installation this without success. The > boot.flp file is 1,474,560 and the size of the floppy disk is 1,456,796. > > I have the fdimage.exe and the boot.flp files in my c:\freebsd > directory. After running > > fdimage boot.flp a: > > the floppy disk becomes unreadable and I have to reformat it with the > DOS format command. > > Can you kindly give me some suggestions on how to proceed in getting > freesbd installed please? My current system is using Windows 95/NT. > > Many thanks for your time and help. > > Linus > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com