From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jun 21 10: 5:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C29E37BFE2; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 10:05:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id VAA01687; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 21:08:50 +0200 Message-ID: <3950F5E7.33134061@i-clue.de> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 19:05:43 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nik Clayton Cc: Doug Young , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie Docs References: <37B38B12.A1E9D43C@gargoyle.apana.org.au> <20000620194349.A418@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nik Clayton wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 01:03:49PM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > > One thing I would like to see in the newbie documentation area is really > > detailed step by step info on making installation floppies. [snip] > > Could you take a look at section 2.2.1.1 of the Handbook, titled > "Creating the Boot Floppies", and let me know what you think of that? > > You should find it at > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/install-guide.html > > If those instructions are not sufficiently clear, could you explain the > problems you're having, so that we can make them clearer. Make it more clear standard DOS/Win procedures cannot be used, just like.. 2.2.1.1. Creating the Boot Floppies First, you have to create two BSD format boot floppies. Those floppies cannot be created using standard DOS or windows tools. For more information, please read the installation boot image information. To create the boot floppies... - Download both image files from the floppies directory of the FreeBSD FTP site or your local mirror. Beware: Some versions of Netscape wreak havoc on those images. [Explain how to get the images without ascii translation, or auto-expansion through tools like netzip.] Just my $.05 -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message