From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 21 12: 7:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87BD9158BA for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:06:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17361; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:03:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:03:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Loic Mahe'" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.1 : problem with the installation In-Reply-To: <371D77C7.13A0B10B@twam.com> 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 Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Loic Mahe' wrote: > Hello, > > I've just installed FreeBSD 3.1 (works fine !), but I've encountered > some problems during the installation. > I've tried to start from DOS with CDROM support : > > D:\>install > > DOS tells me : > > D:\>fbsdboot.exe -D kernel > Invalid command > > So I tried next (I remember that fbsdboot.exe was located at the root > of the CDROM in previous distributions) : > > D:\>tools\fbsdboot.exe -D kernel > > And I get : > > Invalid format ! > > Is fbsdboot.exe corrupted or is something wrong with my system ? fbsdboot isn't compatible with the 3.1 ELF kernels, probably. Make boot floppies. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message