Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 05:44:17 +1100 From: Andrew Johns <A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au> To: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> Cc: "Chrystian S." <myth@fulori.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bootdisks Message-ID: <36EC0381.AE2145F3@TurnAround.com.au> References: <3.0.6.32.19990314084220.007ae100@istar.ca>
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Dru wrote: > > At 07:15 AM 14/03/99 -0600, you wrote: > >I know someone having this much troulble making boot disks probably > >shouldn't be running unix but...:) I'm currently using NT4 and > >downloaded the files into > >C: my download files\fdimage.exe but when coping these files to my a > >drive I continue to get the error statement : The name specified is not > >recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch > >file. What am I doing wrong?? Could you give or send me somewhere to > >get more detailed instructions It would be a great help thanks :) Also > >when I make these disks If I want to cd burn a full version of this to > >have a hard copy and not tax your ftp sites if I ever need it again do I > >have permission and what all files should I download. > > I'm a bit confused as to which step is failing. You've successfully > downloaded fdimage.exe, kern.flp, and mfsroot.flp? If so, are you running > fdimage from a command prompt? If fdimage is failing from the command > prompt, do you have DOS or any other OS on your PC to try running fdimage > from? NT's WIN32 subsystem does not support all DOS programs; I've never > tried fdimage from an NT box to see if it works. > fdimage works fine with NT PlayStation (well you wouldn't call it a work station in comparison to $0BSD!!) service pack 3 -- Regards | _/\_/\ Andrew Johns BSc (Comp Sci) | / \ TurnAround Solutions Pty Ltd | \_...__/ http://www.turnaround.com.au/ | \/ "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed FreeBSD." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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