From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 21 07:38:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA00621 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 07:38:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebie.brann.org ([207.122.63.57]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA00602 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 07:38:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by freebie.brann.org (8.8.4/8.8.2) id KAA19324; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 10:37:26 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199702211537.KAA19324@freebie.brann.org> Subject: Re: making progess on install In-Reply-To: <199702211303.AAA05447@nornet.nor.com.au> from KevinWaterson at "Feb 21, 97 11:57:45 pm" To: surfnsun@nor.com.au Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 10:37:26 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org From: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk KevinWaterson wrote... > OK one step at a time > I managed to find a new copy of boot.flp from > ftp://ftp.au.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.7-RELEASE/floppies/ > and put it on a freshly formatted (dos) 1.44 disk. > next, I insert the disk into a: on a machine that has only dos6.22 > and a cd driver and boot. > Non-System disk. > I am determined to get this right. > Any thoughts? How did you copy the floppy image? You need to use 'rawrite' (if you're in DOS / Windows land) which is available in the 'tools' directory of the release tree. This seems to have disappeared from the install instructions... John -- Prohibit work, prohibit pay - people are dying! Situationist International slogan finger jbrann@brann.org for pgp public key