From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 31 4:20:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4760E1525D for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 04:20:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990331122212.RRGT5470601.mta2-rme@wocker>; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 00:22:12 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Tommi Leino Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 00:20:51 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: how do i build a boot disk? Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <3702121E.35E046F6@netmill.fi> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990331122212.RRGT5470601.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 31 Mar 99, at 15:16, Tommi Leino wrote: > I found no documentation concerning the building of a boot disk. I > have to build such a disk since I _can't_ use a boot manager, and > apparently there is no way to boot FreeBSD directly from Windows > or DOS in the way of loadlin for example. So, how do i build a boot > disk or is there an alternative way? > > I hope I could receive the answer quickly, this is pretty urgent. The > question can also be added to the FreeBSD FAQ, and it should, I'm quite > sure there is others with the same problem, but please, answer using > e-mail too. It's on the ftp server in the file install.txt but you might want to see how I did it at http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd/install19990320.htm -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message