From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Nov 2 19:32:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.hccnet.nl (smtp.hccnet.nl [62.251.0.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E10237B40A for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 19:32:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from uds156-48.dial.hccnet.nl by smtp.hccnet.nl via uds156-48.dial.hccnet.nl [62.251.48.156] with ESMTP id EAA00264 (8.8.8/1.13); Sat, 3 Nov 2001 04:32:36 +0100 (MET) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 04:32:46 +0100 (CET) From: Janko van Roosmalen X-X-Sender: janko@parmenides.utp.xnet To: Annelise Anderson Cc: Kevin Anderson , Subject: Re: Installation Problem - Hardware Detection In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011103041446.Q1951-100000@parmenides.utp.xnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Annelise Anderson wrote: [snip] > I assume you really used kern.flp, not boot.flp. boot.flp is a 2.88-size > image for 2.88 floppy drives (which few of us have) and is also used as > the image the boots from a CD. > [snip] After a couple of FreeBSD installations, I installed FreeBSD 4.4 last week. And I did it again. Put in the wrong floppy. I find the names of the floppy images rather confusing. How about changing "boot.flp" to "boot288.flp" and the kernel.flp and mfsroot.flp to "boot144a.flp" and "boot144b.flp" ? Janko van Roosmalen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message