Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 21:50:41 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: xavian@professional3d.com, Bob Martin <bob@buckhorn.net>, "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>, "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HELP!! creating the boot floppies for freebsd Message-ID: <20001001215040.N25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <20001001182259.B29947@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@emsphone.com on Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 06:23:00PM -0500 References: <39D7C3DF.C0B65C9F@home.com> <20001001182259.B29947@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 06:23:00PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 01), xavian anderson macpherson said: > > i have run the commands > > cd /cdrom/floppies > > dd if=mfsroot.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b > > dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs-36b > > how am i supposed to know if it worked without actually REBOOTING.? > > when i do `du', i get `8'; i don't if this is 8 bytes or 8 KBytes. > > how many files are supposed to be copied. this gave 80+0. > > is this correct? > > uuuuh. They're boot floppies. You HAVE to boot them. Nah. You can just mount them and see if the filesystem is OK (the boot floppies have UFS on them afterall), # mount /dev/fd0a /mnt # ls -l /mnt If that works, odds are pretty good your copy procedure was OK. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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