From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 07:19:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA14956 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 07:19:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bw85zhb.bluewin.ch (bw85zhb.bluewin.ch [195.186.1.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA14948 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 07:19:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from delcarlo@bluewin.ch) Received: from pippo ([195.186.12.75]) by bw85zhb.bluewin.ch ( with SMTP id AAA6DF for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:19:27 +0100 Message-ID: <364707DE.5041@bluewin.ch> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 16:18:54 +0100 From: pippo Reply-To: delcarlo@bluewin.ch X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 [de]C-KIT-bw (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: boot floppy to install freebsd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, i tried to create a floppy-disc to install freebsd. i made a new partition with 121 MB and the boot-disc(with fdimage), but when i boot from it, all i get is: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ can't find file boot.config can't find file boot.help >>FREEBSD BOOT @ 0x1000: 639/7424 k of memory, internal console Boot default: 0:fd(0,a)kernel boot: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ my system: 486 with DOS and Win 3.1 if you know what i'm doing wrong, please let me know! thanks a lot for your support p.s. is it necessary to format the new partition in order to install freebsd?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message