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Date:      Sat, 3 Nov 2001 00:13:21 -0800 (PST)
From:      Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To:        Janko van Roosmalen <janko@compuserve.com>
Cc:        Kevin Anderson <watieri@earthlink.net>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installation Problem - Hardware Detection
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10111022340130.17267-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20011103041446.Q1951-100000@parmenides.utp.xnet>

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On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Janko van Roosmalen wrote:

> 
> 
> 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
> 
It used to be that there was only one.
I sort of like the boot288.flp idea, but I deal more with what is
that what ought to be. :)

I tried to use the boot.flp image to make a floppy, but it refused--
file too large.  Of course, it's time-consuming to download the
wrong one.

	Annelise 

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