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Date:      Thu, 12 Jun 1997 22:46:36 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com>
To:        unixsa@northlink.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ? installation boot disk
Message-ID:  <199706122046.WAA01506@eac.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: <199706121907.MAA26095@smtp.northlink.com> from Wilton Hughes at "Jun 12, 97 12:04:51 pm"

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Wilton Hughes wrote:

> >From your WEB page I downloaded boot.flp and fdimage.exe then in the 
> same directory I executed:
> 
>   fdimage boot.flp a:
> 
> The light indicated activity on the floppy, but after execution, the 
> floppy was empty.

Did you try booting from the floppy?  (DOS doesn't understand the
`boot.flp' file, so a `dir' won't show anything.)

Try

    fdimage -v boot.flp a:

if you want to check that something is actually happening.

-- 
Robert Nordier



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