Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 00:45:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "House of Debuggin'" <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot disks insane? Message-ID: <199505310445.AAA00304@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> In-Reply-To: <199505310414.WAA00245@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at May 30, 95 10:14:49 pm
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They say this Warner Losh person was kidding when he wrote: > I just grabbed boot.flp and root.flp from the 2.0.5-ALPHA directory on > ftp.freebsd.org (yes, it has been released, but the announcement is > stuck in mailq hell, I'm told). I saw it on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce over here a short while ago. > Anyway, I can't boot root.flp, and its size is quite odd (392,704 > bytes) Should these have been .gz? Or am I just immagining things and > need to refetch them? > > Warner *chuckle* Uhm... either this is a fiendishly clever troll, or somebody up there has it in for Jordan. You're supposed to boot the boot.flp image, not the root.flp image. The boot.flp image is the boot disk; root.flp is actually the cpio.flp image from previous releases in disguise. You shouldn't need to do anything except dd or rawrite both images to floppies and boot the boot.flp disk. No gunzipping or other such arcane rituals should be required. Didn't you notice that boot.flp is 1228800 bytes in size, which is exactly big enough to fit onto a 5.25" high density diskette? The funny thing is that I remember seeing the commit message where Jordan renamed cpio.flp to root.flp, and in the log entry he said he did it to reduce confusion. I guess you showed him. :) -Bill -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~T~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Møøse Illuminati: ignore it and be confused, or join it and be confusing! ~~~~~~~~~ FreeBSD 2.1: "We can kick your operating system's ass!" ~~~~~~~~~~
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