From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 27 07:30:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA24756 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 07:30:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA24744 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 07:30:33 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Lehey Received: from freebie.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0vSlvG-000QrYC; Wed, 27 Nov 96 16:29 MET Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.de (8.8.3/8.6.12) id QAA02462; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:12:37 +0100 (MET) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Message-Id: <199611271512.QAA02462@freebie.lemis.de> Subject: Re: Installation questions In-Reply-To: <329B8690.4435@boeing.com> from Steve Blair at "Nov 26, 96 07:08:48 pm" To: bvn003@dog.he.boeing.com Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:12:37 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Steve Blair writes: > Hello: > > I purchased Free BSD 2.1 to install on a new Gateway > pentium pc. I have to CD from Walnut Creek in my ATAPI CD > drive. Prior to this I copied the boot.flp from the CD to a > floppy on my other PC that is running windows 95. When I > attempt to boot from this floopy the PC complains that the > floppy is not bootable. Am I approaching this correctly? I'd guess that you have copied the floppy incorrectly. If you're using Microsoft products, use TOOLS\RAWRITE.EXE. > There isn't an atapi.flp file on the CD as the documentation > suggests, could this be the problem? No. There is no atapi.flp any more--see my weekly posting to this group. I'm curious, though, what you used instead :-) Use floppies/boot.flp. Greg