From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 13:40:29 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 B933D37B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:40:27 -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 2EC4F43E75 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:40:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id D5EF24FC9F; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:36:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CACE74A0E; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:36:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:36:09 -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. > > * EOM is not a command, it's an end-of-text marker, similar to the one used in Perl. * There are text-file incompatibilities between Unix and DOS. If you're copying/pasting the file from the website in Windows, ftp'ing it to a Unix box and then trying to run it, all those extra linefeeds may cause extremely bizzare errors. I hate to say it, but if you can only get the Internet on your winbox, you should probably fire up vi (or whatever editor you like) and enter it manally. Or run a dos2unix utility on the script on your Unix box to set it up and clear out those linefeeds. That or use 'dd' as in my previous post :) 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