Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 09:39:59 -0800 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installation Problem - Hardware Detection Message-ID: <3BE971EF.D352D96@acuson.com> References: <20011106223009.C1061-100000@master.gorean.org>
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Doug Barton wrote: > In all honesty, running a Unix system requires a little more > attention to detail than this. Even if you don't understand the names, > just looking at the size of the files should give you all the clue you > need. I remember trying to create a boot floppy off of a 2.88 image. It took me the longest time to figure out the problem, because one normally doesn't expect a floppy image to be any larger than 1.44. Why should I have looked at the sizes? I had already made the kern and mfsroot floppies because I had read the instructions which said to create them. But it wasn't entirely clear from the instructions (as a newbie) that "kern" equates to "boot". David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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