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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:56:36 +0100
From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>
To: "Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw@withagen.nl>
Cc: current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Booting from floppies
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On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:42:18 +0100
"Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw@withagen.nl> wrote:

Hi,

> My guess is that nobody use 1.44 floppies any more to boot.
> But when I wanted to fire up an old box which only has a floppy
> it did not grock the msfroot floppy:
> 
>     '/mfsroot not found'

I just had that problem last week booting a -STABLE jpsnap. Having had
bad experiences with floppy disks reliability I just dd'ed it again,
just in case. The second time it worked. Could be a faulty disk.

FWIW I think a lot of people use boot floppies to do net installs.

Cheers,
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        Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net
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