Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 07:32:49 +0000 From: Joe Dunsmore <duns0014@umn.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation of 5.3 over network fails on boot up. Message-ID: <200501090732.50116.duns0014@umn.edu>
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> On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:27:51AM +0100, Arne Eng=F8 wrote: > >/> I have been using FreeBSD earlier, but am new to the 5.0-Release. />/> The boot.flp image seems to be twice the size of an ordinary floppy,=20 while the other four images in the floppies-directory fits on exactly one=20 disk each. What are the BOOT.FLP disk for ? How is it to be used, and how d= o=20 I use it on a 1.44 - floppy disk drive system ??? I would appreciate a spee= dy=20 reply, as I'm trying to set up a new system with Freebsd 5.0-release. /> > You don't use boot.flp with a 1.44Mb floppy drive. =A0You can use > boot.flp with a 2.88Mb floppy drive, but relatively few people have > one of those. =A0You can also use it to build certain styles of bootable > CD Rom -- although I think even that use is verging on the obsolete > nowadays. boot.flp is the same size as the kernX.flp files, and the installation manu= al=20 said all three files are needed. This is in sections 1.3 and 1.4 of=20 http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/installation-i386.html
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