From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 21:50:04 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5419A16A409 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:50:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-227-250.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3A3313C4C2 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:50:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l3ALn8jd092059; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:49:09 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20070410164645.0253fc50@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:48:38 -0500 To: unixmail@webcore.com.au, From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <000f01c77bb3$b3d34b80$a900a8c0@DOLLY> References: <000f01c77bb3$b3d34b80$a900a8c0@DOLLY> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: flp floppies X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:50:04 -0000 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.