From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 03:35:05 2005 Return-Path: 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 A73B016A4CE for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 03:35:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mtaout-w.tc.umn.edu (mtaout-w.tc.umn.edu [160.94.160.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD4443D5D for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 03:35:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duns0014@umn.edu) Received: from [192.168.1.16] (ip68-104-63-160.lv.lv.cox.net [68.104.63.160]) by mtaout-w.tc.umn.edu with ESMTP for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:35:04 -0600 (CST) X-Umn-Remote-Mta: [N] ip68-104-63-160.lv.lv.cox.net [68.104.63.160] #+TS+AU+HN From: Joe Dunsmore To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 07:32:49 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501090732.50116.duns0014@umn.edu> Subject: Re: Installation of 5.3 over network fails on boot up. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 03:35:05 -0000 > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:27:51AM +0100, Arne Eng=F8 wrote: > >/> I have been using FreeBSD earlier, but am new to the 5.0-Release. />/> The boot.flp image seems to be twice the size of an ordinary floppy,=20 while the other four images in the floppies-directory fits on exactly one=20 disk each. What are the BOOT.FLP disk for ? How is it to be used, and how d= o=20 I use it on a 1.44 - floppy disk drive system ??? I would appreciate a spee= dy=20 reply, as I'm trying to set up a new system with Freebsd 5.0-release. /> > You don't use boot.flp with a 1.44Mb floppy drive. =A0You can use > boot.flp with a 2.88Mb floppy drive, but relatively few people have > one of those. =A0You can also use it to build certain styles of bootable > CD Rom -- although I think even that use is verging on the obsolete > nowadays. boot.flp is the same size as the kernX.flp files, and the installation manu= al=20 said all three files are needed. This is in sections 1.3 and 1.4 of=20 http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/installation-i386.html