From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Nov 3 0:15:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC6A237B40A for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 00:15:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA17443; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 00:13:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 00:13:21 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Janko van Roosmalen Cc: Kevin Anderson , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation Problem - Hardware Detection In-Reply-To: <20011103041446.Q1951-100000@parmenides.utp.xnet> Message-ID: 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 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 -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message