From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 1 16: 5:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B2DB37B502 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 16:05:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.com ([24.20.70.64]) by femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001001230506.XJQF18167.femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 16:05:06 -0700 Message-ID: <39D7C3DF.C0B65C9F@home.com> Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 16:08:15 -0700 From: xavian anderson macpherson Reply-To: xavian@professional3d.com Organization: http://www.professional3d.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Martin , "Albert D. Cahalan" , Dan Nelson , "Person, Roderick" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: HELP!! creating the boot floppies for freebsd X-Priority: 1 (Highest) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message