Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 13:34:11 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: wildcardus freakis <wildcard@dax.belen.k12.nm.us>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.1-RELEASE and boot.flp Message-ID: <19990219133411.C22647@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990218143618.28919C-100000@dax.belen.k12.nm.us>; from wildcardus freakis on Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 02:38:13PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990218143618.28919C-100000@dax.belen.k12.nm.us>
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On Thursday, 18 February 1999 at 14:38:13 -0700, wildcardus freakis wrote: > > Curious...how you make a floppy out of a file that is: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 2035 207 2949120 Feb 16 03:21 boot.flp > > ---------------------------^ > > This seems inordinatly large for a floppy.... It fits nicely onto a 2.88 MB floppy, or with a lot of empty space on an LS-120. > I would like to know cause I am trying to install 3.1 Here's part of the draft of the third edition of The Complete FreeBSD: Computer hardware is changing, and finally floppies are going away; instead, modern computers boot from CD-ROM. If yours doesn't, you can still boot from floppy, but in 3.0 the boot image (the data needed to put on the floppy) no longer fits on a single 1.44 MB floppy. The boot.flp image still exists, but you will need a 2.88 MB floppy or an LS-120 drive in order to use it. If you still need to boot from a 1.44MB disk, you will need two floppies. Copy kern.flp to the first and msfroot.flp to the other. Boot from the first floppy (the one containing the kern.flp image). After loading the kernel, the system will print the message: Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter: After you replace the floppy and press enter, the boot procedure carries on as before. If there's anything incorrect or confusing about that, now's the time to tell me. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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