Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 22:30:44 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Al Leslie <alleslie@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9 boot floppies help Message-ID: <3FDA95F4.3010104@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <Law11-F87X9tcJAp1j800036331@hotmail.com> References: <Law11-F87X9tcJAp1j800036331@hotmail.com>
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Al Leslie wrote: > > i have Award Modular BIOS v 4.41 PG (c) 1984-96 (cd-rom Bootable), > Pent 133Mhz 1.2 Gig and 32 Megs 3com nic. no mouse. > i downloaded 4.9 in 2 .iso images and setup some floppies for booting. > the Kern.flp disk executes fine and asks for Mfsroot.flp. but this > disks returns > zf_read unexpected EOF and prompts a shutdown or reboot. > I made the disks with rawrite on a Win Me Toshiba laptop. > > can someone shed some light on this? > > Thanks > The best place for this is question@ instead of newbies@, (it'll get more answers there, among other things.) When you say "I made the disks with rawrite", you're saying I made the CD's with rawrite, or the floppies? For floppies, fdimage (in the tools directory on the FTP server, possibly on one of your CD's, I dunno) is the tool. Format a new floppy and try again? DTH, but HTH :-) Kevin Kinsey
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