From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 7 13: 6:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A32637B51A for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:06:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (surry-pool-143.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.143] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA23611; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 08:07:21 +1100 From: Danny To: "O. Nunez de Villavicencio" Subject: Re: 'MakeFloppies.exe', About Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 08:02:17 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <38C544E2.C2AF65DD@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00030908092301.00323@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You don't type anything in the shell. Read the instruction below:- Assumptions :- You must have Windows 98/96/nt/ to do the following instructions 1) Put in your FreeBSD CD in the CDROM 2) Enter Command.com. This can be done by clicking on "start", "run" and type in "command.com" in the textbox 3) Assuming the CDROM is your d:. Type in "d:" 4) There you be a file called makefloppies.exe (or something with an obvious name). Before you begin you must have two blank floppy disks. 5) Type in "makefloppies.exe" then it will prompt you for the first disk. Place the floopy disk into the floppy disk drive and it will do all the work 6) Then it will prompt you for the second disk. Remove the 1st floppy disk and replace it with the second floppy disk. 7) After that has finish you have completed the creation of flloppy disk. Looking forward to your feedback. dannyh dannyh@idx.com.au On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, you wrote: > = = = = = = = = = = Reply Separator = = = = = = = = = = > > ================================ > => From the desk of... > > * Orlando Nunez de Villavicencio * > http://www.onva.com/ONVA.htm > ================================ > TO: Danny > > Dear Danny, > > Your note to 'Davydov' about making the floppies via makefloppy.exe is > an eye-opener. However, for those of us that are not too well versed in > computereze is puzzling. > > How do I call on the file 'makefloppy.exe' to get it to work > automatically? What is it that I have to type on the shell? For example, > I just loaded FreeBSD 3.4. When I wrote on the shell: makefloppy.exe > (and other variations, thereof: ie .make... /make...) it answered me: > not found. Do I have to write something else besides makefloppy.exe? > > Thanking you in advance, I remain grateful, > > Orlando > = = = = -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message