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From: "Paul Moore" <gustav@morpheus.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: RE: Booting FreeBSD from floppy (ie, without a bootloader on the hard disk)
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 14:59:59 +0100
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From: Crist J. Clark
> I have made boot floppies like this before. I'm just going to recite
> what I /think/ I did from memory. I might leave out a detail or two,
> but this is the gist of it.
[...]

Thanks for this, and to all who answered. I now have a bootable setup.

One other question... This is probably simple, but it's frustrating - I've
installed and set up X windows, using XF86Setup, which worked fine. But when
I say "OK" to save settings and start the X server, the screen displays fine
(with vidtune running to let me teak settings) but there is no mouse
pointer! The pointer was fine in the VGA-resolution setup, but it's gone in
my 1024x768 final screen. I'm using a Matrox Millenium G400 with 32M of RAM,
if that's relevant.

Is there a simple issue I've missed, or do I need to supply all the gory
details of my settings?

Thanks for any help,
Paul.



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