Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 22:49:22 -0200 (EDT) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: ian@gamespot.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot floppies broken? Message-ID: <199701090049.WAA23446@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> In-Reply-To: <199701082225.PAA02950@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Jan 8, 97 03:25:07 pm"
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(changed to -questions, since this does not belong to -isp) #define quoting(Nate Williams) // Ian Kallen writes: // > I've downloaded boot.flp from /pub/FreeBSD/2.1.6-RELEASE (yes, as a // > binary) and used // > dd if=/tmp/boot.flp of=/dev/rfd0c bs=36b // > to make an image but if I try to mount it I get a bad superblock // > complaint. // // The disks aren't filesystems, so therefore aren't mountable and/or // fsck'able. Is it possible to access its information ? I suspect one of my machines is having problems with the floppy boot code, so I'd like to try DOS fbsdboot.exe with the boot.flp kernel. Is this kernel image available somewhere ? Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 ( Job ) jonny@cisi.coppe.ufrj.br Network Manager UFRJ/COPPE/CISI Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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