From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 13:29:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 362DB37B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:29:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D3C943E65 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:29:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id DA0404FC9F; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:25:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4AFA4A0E; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:25:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:25:21 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Terry Cooper Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD bootable floppy Script NOT WORKING In-Reply-To: <004901c27947$f71829b0$fb69cecd@donatev49iknkl> Message-ID: 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 On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Terry Cooper wrote: > Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:22:31 -0700 > From: Terry Cooper > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: FreeBSD bootable floppy Script NOT WORKING > > Ok, I'm frustrated out. Do people actually use this script because the only > one I find is the the one referenced from freebsd.org. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.html > #AEN14848 > > I cut and paste this script into a file in windows and then did a fetch from > my server. When my script run's into the EOM command I get problems. I am > running sh shell I think. > > cat << EOM > > I'm using FreeBSD 4.62 and EOM is just putting everything into one file. I > retyped everything and getting the same problem. So I don't know if it's > hidden characters or not. Is there a place to fetch this file!!!!! Because > I'm going crazy. > > Also is this bootable floppy suppose to let me see something because so far > all I get is a no /boot/loader. > Quick question - is there anything special about this script? I mean, wouldn't it just be easier to 'dd' a bootable floppy from one of the images on the install CDs? Sorry, I haven't used a floppy drive in years, but this seems like a lot to go through when 'dd' can do it for you. Unless, of course, there's something special about the disk this script creates. Good luck - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message