From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 29 14:29:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA11323 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 14:29:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.16]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA11314 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 14:29:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA01479; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 23:29:20 +0100 (MET) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199611292229.XAA01479@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: QUICK QUICK question In-Reply-To: <329F5084.5090@ici.net> from Tony Bettini at "29. Nov. 96 16:04:20" To: soren@ici.net (Tony Bettini) Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 23:29:19 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (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 > Hello. I have been reading about FreeBSD for awhile and have decided to install it. I > have downloaded all files i believe i need except one. One of the pages on your web page > [www.freebsd.org] stated that the 1st [not the boost disk] need to have the image file > root.flp which is in the floppies directory. I went to > ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-2.1.6-RELEASE/floppies and it is not there. Where > can I find it? Or do I not even need it? A quick answer: You don't need it. There is none. (The boot disk will boost you. :-) I checked http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html and did not find it. Perhaps this document was referring to an old version. (What's the URL ?) Robert -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de