From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 12 07:29:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA10658 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 07:29:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA10643 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 07:28:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jer@mercury.jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA22326; Tue, 12 May 1998 09:28:45 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:28:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner To: Cole Just cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: question about the 3.5" 1.44MB boot disk In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 May 1998, Cole Just wrote: > My BIOS is set to boot directly from the hard drive. What exactly is the > complete FreeBSD? Should I change my BIOS to boot from the A: drive? Thanks > for your help. "The Complete FreeBSD" is a big fat book by Greg Lehey. If the stuff on your Windows95 partition is worth more to you than the price of the book, you should buy the book so you don't (hopefully) loose everything in your attempt to install FreeBSD. And yes, you should change the boot order in the BIOS to check the floppy first, as I said in my last message. Or, you could just go buy a Mac. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremy Shaffner > Sent: Friday, May 08, 1998 5:00 PM > To: Cole Just > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: question about the 3.5" 1.44MB boot disk > You have to think about what it was the fdimage program did. boot.flp > contains an "image" of a bootable FreeBSD floppy disk. When you used > fdimage.exe, it didn't copy the file onto the disk, it wrote raw data from > the file directly to the sectors of the disk. That's why you couldn't > browse it, and why Windows (Windows95 is really DOS 7.0 anyway) didn't > recognize it when you tried. > > Even if something went wrong, you should at least get a "Non System Disk > or Disk Error" message when you try to boot from the floppy. So you > either don't really have the floppy in, or the computer's BIOS is set to > boot directly from the harddrive. If this is the case you should be able > to change the boot order to (for example) A:, C:, CD-ROM. > > You should THOROUGHLY read over the Handbook and FAQ. I fear your next > message will be that you wiped your Windows partition if you don't. If > it's worth anything to you, you might also want to get "The Complete > FreeBSD" as well. > -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message