From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 17 8:41:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logatome.micronet.fr (logatome-2.francenet.fr [193.149.96.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 338F914CB9 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 08:41:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from e-masson@kisoft-services.com) Received: from kisoft-services.com (Nantes4.francenet.net [193.149.110.68]) by logatome.micronet.fr (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20204; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 17:40:56 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3809ADE1.395AA340@kisoft-services.com> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 13:07:13 +0200 From: Eric MASSON Organization: Kisoft Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [fr] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gallup Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd References: <3808079F.C63BF116@metro.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Look at the readme in the floppies subdirectory, boot.flp is intented for 2,88 Mo floppies, you have to fdimage kern.flp and mfs.flp on 2 different floppies and then boot with kern floppy. This question has already been answered in this list, look in http://www.freebsd.org/search when encountering another problem and if information is irrelevant or incomplete post on this list. Regards Eric Gallup a écrit : > > I have downloaded freebsd off the ftp server. I need to now install > freebsd. From what I have gathered, I need to get the "floppies" and > create them with fdimage.exe. The only problem is, I can't make the > boot.flp file into a disk because it's too big for my 1.44 mb floppy > disks. How can I get the files for a boot disk so I can install > freebsd, or is there some installation file I can download? > Thanks, > Greg > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Any opinions expressed above | Murphy's Law Corollary : are my own, not Kisoft's | Murphy was an optimist. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message