From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 17 3:36: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f218.law3.hotmail.com [209.185.241.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86C0A14FD7 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 03:36:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mmikkkk@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 39202 invoked by uid 0); 17 Dec 1999 11:36:06 -0000 Message-ID: <19991217113606.39201.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 207.18.199.124 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 03:36:06 PST X-Originating-IP: [207.18.199.124] From: "Michael Nolan" To: 01031149@3web.net, mmikkkk@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: nvp@akamai.com, jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Subject: Re: Floppy installation Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 11:36:06 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the info folks, I booted from the disk (boot.flp) and everything seemed to go fine, except that it would flash an error (maybe an error, went too fast.About 3-4 words long) and then went into a reboot loop, repeating the process. I tried changing the default command manually, pure trial and error, and I would eventually get "can't find x", where x is whatever I typed. So I tried stripping down the machine as much as I could, removing the network and sound cards and trying again... still rebooting. I think I'm missing something. The only file I have is boot.flp. Duke mentions mfsroot.flp and kern.flp (below) but I can't find these anywhere on the ftp sites. I appreciate any help you can provide. ___________________________________________________________________ : After following the instructions I checked the disk and it is blank ,or, : seems to be blank. It's not blank. Don't forget what 'rawrite' does to the floppy. It doesn't DOS format it; that's for sure. :-) You just have to pop the floppy into your drive, and reboot your machine. DOS can't read the formatted disk but when you boot your machine with the floppy, you should be able to boot into the FreeBSD installer. :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- >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! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael... +AHw-After following the instructions I checked the disk and it is blank ,or, +AHw-seems to be blank. +AHw-Is there anything wrong with this procedure? What follows is the procedure that I've recently (and successfully) used. Modify yours accordingly: +ACM-1 in DOS+AFw-Windows create the directory c:+AFw-freebsd +ACM-2 insure (DL or move) that fdimage.exe, boot.flp, and mfsroot.flp are all living in c:+AFw-freebsd +ACM-3 format 2 diskettes -- do a full format then label them boot.flp and mfsroot.flp respectively +ACM-4 If not in Dos open a Dos Window and place the empty boot.flp in Dr A +ACM-5 cd to freebsd +ACM-5 type: fdimage c:+AFw-freebsd+AFw-boot.flp a: +ACM-7 Insert empty mfsroot.flp in Dr A when +ACM-5 is done +ACM-8 type: fdimage c:+AFw-freebsd+AFw-mfsroot.flp a: +ACM-9 Insert boot.flp in Dr A +ACM-10 Exit windows and reboot or if in Dos Alt-Ctrl-Del +ACM-11 Insert mfsroot.flp when you're asked to +ACM-12 and Bob's your uncle+ACEAIQ- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Guys.... In my previous post I of course meant to write kern.flp and not boot.flp. Too many hours hitting the FBSD books +ADsAXg-). Sorry about that+ACE- later.....duke ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message