From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 26 13:50:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3EE337B43C for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 13:50:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e7QKo2J10633; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 13:50:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 13:50:01 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Johan Pettersson Cc: Gary W Olson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD Powerpak 4.0 Message-ID: <20000826135001.Q1209@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <39A7FDF3.F927A52C@frontiernet.net> <20000826213646.A9341@b41.ryd.student.liu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000826213646.A9341@b41.ryd.student.liu.se>; from johpe159@student.liu.se on Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 09:36:46PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Johan Pettersson [000826 12:36] wrote: > On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 12:27:15PM -0500, Gary W Olson wrote: > > Why aren't the boot floppies included in the package like Linux > > distributions have? > > Quite frankly, creating the floppies have been such an unsuccessful > > problem that I am considering > > abandoning BSD. > > > Hi! > > You can find them on your cd in floppies! > > fdimage kern.flp a: (DOS) > dd if=floppies/kern.flp of=/dev/rfd0 (Linux/FreeBSD) > > See README.TXT in floppies dir. No I think that's what he's complaining about, actually making the floppies. He can't quite figure it out. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message