Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:48:38 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: unixmail@webcore.com.au, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: flp floppies Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070410164645.0253fc50@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <000f01c77bb3$b3d34b80$a900a8c0@DOLLY> References: <000f01c77bb3$b3d34b80$a900a8c0@DOLLY>
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At 04:03 PM 4/10/2007, unixmail@webcore.com.au wrote:
>My first post. Apologies if I am directing the question to the wrong area.
>
>I am determined to load a copy of FreeBSD, for development purposes, on to
>my machine.
>
>I will then have windows XP Professional and FreeBSD on the same machine,
>sharing the harddrive.
>
>I have loaded FreeBSD on before successfully, but have taken it down to
>reload it in what I understand is a better method. eg setting up CVS
>before loading any ports. Now I am stuck.
>
>
>Here are some of the reasons why.
>
>
>First problem. I have booted from 3.5 in floppies ( yes I like to do
>things the hard way) I also do not know how to load from a cd.
>
>Since I first downloaded and copied the flp files I have load a copy of
>Flash on my machine. Now the FLP files are Flash Project Files. How do I
>change that? and what type of program should it open with? ( Via right
>click of mouse).
>
>Thanks in advance
You need to use rawwrite to write the floppy images to the
diskettes. You'd run this in a command window in XP. rawwrite is in the
tools folder on FreeBSD disk 1
-Derek
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