From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 23 11:20:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.fda.net (unknown [209.144.107.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 273ED14C83 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:20:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shellis@fda.net) Received: from fda.net (ts35p38.fda.net [209.144.107.151]) by ns2.fda.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA21628 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:22:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36F7E940.E0870A1F@fda.net> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:19:28 -0800 From: s Reply-To: shellis@fda.net Organization: t X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: boot.flp and boot floppies Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Folks, Because I have several hard drives with several versions of FreeBSD for experimental purposes I use boot floppies for better control. I am having a problem with revision 3.1 because I cannot create a boot floppy on an ordinary 1.4 MB set of floppies. The floppy image is about 2.9 MB, and of course will not fit on a single floppy. When I use fdimage, I immediately get a diagnostic reminding me of this. Is there a version of fdimage or other utility that is built to split up the boot disk into 2 usable floppies? I contacted the technical support line, and they said that this was a new question to which they did not have an answer. They suggested that I mail you. I am writing an article on using FreeBSD for our scientific software Web page to entice people to try FreeBSD, along with some other promotional efforts I am trying for FreeBSD. Thanks for your kind attention and a wonderful operating system. Best regards, Steve Ellis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message