Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:56:36 +0100 From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> To: "Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw@withagen.nl> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from floppies Message-ID: <20021119125636.192402aa.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <007001c28fc1$a5dbc9e0$471b3dd4@dual> References: <007001c28fc1$a5dbc9e0$471b3dd4@dual>
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On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:42:18 +0100
"Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw@withagen.nl> wrote:
Hi,
> My guess is that nobody use 1.44 floppies any more to boot.
> But when I wanted to fire up an old box which only has a floppy
> it did not grock the msfroot floppy:
>
> '/mfsroot not found'
I just had that problem last week booting a -STABLE jpsnap. Having had
bad experiences with floppy disks reliability I just dd'ed it again,
just in case. The second time it worked. Could be a faulty disk.
FWIW I think a lot of people use boot floppies to do net installs.
Cheers,
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