Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 22:46:30 +0100 From: "c a r s t e n" <carsten@realityblur.com> To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, "Joshua Miner" <josh_miner@hotmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help! Installation Question Message-ID: <E18jneX-0001xk-00@mrelayng.kundenserver.de> In-Reply-To: <3E4D623F.1000900@potentialtech.com>
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| > I am having trouble installing the 5.0 release FreeBSD. I am | > installing it to its own machine and I have completed the | > following steps. I do not have a bootable CD Rom drive (though | > I do have a CD Rom burner), so I have been planning to install | > from discs. So far I have: | > | > 1. Formatted two floppy discs. | > | > 2. Downloaded kern.flp and mfsroot.flp to my root c: drive (of a | > Windows system) | | What kind of Windows (NT, 2000, 95?) | I seem to remember a good bit of trouble getting fdimage to work | on certain hardware under Windows NT (although it's been a while). | fdimage has a number of command line switches ... one of them | solved the problem. I seem to remember something about single- | sector writing or something (it's been a while) | Don't know if this is your problem or not, but report the OS that | you're creating the images from, and check out 'fdimage /?' (I | believe) will give you a list of switches and their meanings. i used a program called ntrawrite.exe. worked like a charm. win2k. c c "man kan tune et filsystem, men man kan ikke tunfisk", bsd tunefs manpage To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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