From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 29 13:16:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EB9137B40B for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA11659; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:16:01 -0700 Message-ID: <3BB62BFF.6F6486C0@owt.com> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:15:59 -0700 From: Kent Stewart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jacks@sage-american.com Cc: Aaron , "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdimage refuses to work References: <20010929182355.B240-100000@big> <3.0.5.32.20010929145334.03f12c60@mail.sage-american.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 jacks@sage-american.com wrote: > > 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.... This is not true. I have run fdimage from W2K's prompt since I started using FreeBSD. It didn't see to work on Windows XP Personal Final until I used O:\FreeBSD>fdimage -v -f 1.44M mfsroot.flp a: Insert new diskette for drive A: and press ENTER when ready Formatting: cyl 79 hd 1 Writing: cyl 79 hd 1 Done Kent > > 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com Carl Sagan quote on Seti@home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html It is hard to believe you are soaring with Eagles (las águilas) when you accept SPAM like a mouse (el ratón). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message