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Date:      Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:38:50 +1300
From:      "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz>
To:        Michael Jaskowiak <skovian@interpath.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bootable floppy
Message-ID:  <19990114213823.XEH682101.mta1-rme@wocker>
In-Reply-To: <369E5F5C.7FF1@interpath.com>

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On 14 Jan 99, at 16:19, Michael Jaskowiak wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>  My name is Michael Jaskowiak and I have been using FreeBSD for about two
> years.  I am trying to make a FreeBSD bootable disk (2.2.8) that will
> allow me to mount a CD and untar files from it.  Before going further, I
> will add that I have had no luck whatsoever with the PicoBSD floppies of
> any version.  When I try to make them, I can never get them to boot. 
> Anyway, the floppy that I am trying to build is the same one that is in
> the handbook (www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook139.html#267).

I tried the same thing last night.  No success either.  So I resorted to 
the instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook7.html.  See 
#4 on that page.  I was able to get a bootable floppy that way.

hope that helps.

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Dan Langille
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