Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:34:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Chuck Rouillard <chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com> To: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> Cc: Robert Tucker <rqtucker@home.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Getting the floppy images Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0106011422040.46044-100000@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com> In-Reply-To: <15128.1244.403088.727011@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, John Reynolds~ wrote: > > [ moving to -questions which is more appropriate to non-doc related questions ] > [ On Friday, June 1, Robert Tucker wrote: ] > > > > I am trying to do this from scratch and it is already turning hard! > > First I got my floppies ready (4 of them) and then clicked on the > > boot.flp, but instead of going into ftp mode it tried to display the > > you don't need for floppies for one thing. See the handbook: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/install-guide.html#INSTALL-FLOPPIES > > you want kern.flp and mfsroot.flp. boot.flp is not what you want. The chapter > shows how to write the files as well. > > > Where have I gone wrong? Could the HTML be the problem? > > nope. [snip] Some browsers (Netscape comes to mind) won't recognize that you want to download by left-clicking. Right-click on the file and use "Save Link As.." instead. [Shift]+Left-click usually works as well. .cr PS: Assuming you grab your floppies from some ./floppies directory, read the ./floppies/README.TXT file too. It has some good stuff in there for new folks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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