From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 31 14:54:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 427A014D47 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:54:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn3001.bossig.com [208.26.243.1]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.6) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 15:02:48 -0800 Message-ID: <389612D5.27927A20@3-cities.com> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:55:17 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ryan Towns Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: imaging boot floppies References: <000801bf6c3a$4e742240$b80b0918@okcw1.ok.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Ryan Towns wrote: > > i am very interested in getting FreeBSD but after downloading > kern.flp, mfsroot.flp and fdimage.exe and went to image the > 2 .flp's onto the floppies i did exaclty what the instructions > said and the dos prompt tells me that there is no kern.flp or > mfsroot.flp am i doing something wrong i put fdimage > and the 2 .flp's in the same dir The instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-guide.html show E:\> tools\fdimage floppies\kern.flp a: That really means that if you are in the same directory with all three files, that you need to do "fdimage kern.flp a:" and so on for the mfsroot.flp. It should work this time :). Kent > > please help, > Ryan Towns -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message