From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 29 12:53:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4659137B40B for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 12:53:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sageone (ppp-208-191-234-190.dialup.crchtx.swbell.net [208.191.234.190]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA04552; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 14:53:14 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20010929145334.03f12c60@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 14:53:34 -0500 To: "Aaron" , "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: fdimage refuses to work Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010929184010.34BB737B40C@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20010929182355.B240-100000@big> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think it needs to run under a REAL DOS system like that used under Win98... Win2K is NOT the same real DOS nor is NT.... At 11:37 AM 9.29.2001 -0700, Aaron wrote: >Well thats the thing...the first system to run *nix is the one I'm trying >to install right now. Luckily the CDROM boots just fine...but I'm still >curious about fdimage since I use it often. > >- click46 > >--------------------------------------------- >click46[wp] - AIM the click46 - ICQ 43450396 >webpimps.net | bsdatwork.com | nerdserve.net >moderator - o/c cooling forum @ hardforum.com > > >-----Original Message----- >From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" >To: Aaron >Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 18:26:21 +0000 (GMT) >Subject: Re: fdimage refuses to work > >> On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Aaron wrote: >> >> > Hello Everyone, >> > >> > I've been trying to create the two boot disks for FreeBSD [kern and >> > mfsroot] today and for the life of me, cannot. I've done this >> > successfully many times before; but now all of a sudden, fdimage >> refuses >> > to work an ANY of the 5 systems I have here. It will not run in any >> Win9x >> > system; it throws illegal operation errors. Under Windows NT, >> depending >> > on the FTP server I got it from, it just hangs or does nothing and >> quits. >> > Under 2000 it doesnt do anything, just returns to the DOS prompt. I >> have >> If one of your 5 systems were some sort of UN*X you could do >> # dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 >> ?!? >> >> Uli. >> >> > tried and downloaded fdimage from ftp through ftp6 [ftp4 doesnt allow >> > guest access?] with no success. What is odd is different fdimage >> files >> > from different ftp sites act differently. >> > I'm quite flustrated and quite confused. Is there an obvious >> mistake I >> > am making? Because I just dont see it... >> > >> > Thank you, >> > >> > - click46 >> > >> > --------------------------------------------- >> > click46[wp] - AIM the click46 - ICQ 43450396 >> > webpimps.net | bsdatwork.com | nerdserve.net >> > moderator - o/c cooling forum @ hardforum.com >> > >> > >> > >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > >> >> ************************************ >> * P. U. Kruppa - Wuppertal * >> * Germany * >> * www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de * >> ************************************ >> > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message