From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 14 09:08:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1967A16A4CE for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 09:08:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A00F543D49 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 09:08:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id hBEH8cHV011382; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:08:38 +0200 Message-Id: <200312141708.hBEH8cHV011382@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 14 Dec 03 19:08:39 +0200 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 14 Dec 03 19:08:27 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: "Al Leslie" Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:08:25 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal In-reply-to: cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9 floppy install help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 17:08:43 -0000 > 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. Maybe I'm missing something, but if you already downloaded the ISOs and your machine can boot from CD-ROM, why bother with floppies at all? -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * No, `Eureka' is Greek for `This bath is too hot.'