Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:40:15 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Joshua Miner <josh_miner@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help! Installation Question Message-ID: <3E4D623F.1000900@potentialtech.com> References: <BAY1-F16TV5TqlpyvsE0000b940@hotmail.com>
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Joshua Miner wrote: > Help! > > > > 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. > > 3. Downloaded fdimage to my root c: drive (of a Windows system) > > 4. Copied kern.flp from the Windows DOS emulator with the command: > fdimage kern.flp a: > > 5. Copied mfsroot.flp from the Windows DOS emulator with the command: > fdimage mfsroot.flp a: > > 6. I turned on the machine to which I will install the OS and ensured > that floppy disks were the primary boot mechanism in the setup menu. > > 7. When I restart the machine with the kern.flp or the mfsroot.flp in > the disk drive I get the message “Insert bootable media in the > appropriate drive.” -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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