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Date:      Thu, 25 May 2000 11:56:01 -0400
From:      "Troy Settle" <troy@picus.com>
To:        "Jim Demetrios Kapakos" <dc121@freenet.toronto.on.ca>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: boot disks
Message-ID:  <NIEBLEDADLBOBAJFKPHDKEEMCAAA.troy@picus.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.10005251113.A26475-0100000@bloor>

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>From the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-guide.html):

If you are installing from an MS-DOS partition, download the
fdimage.exe program or get it from tools\fdimage.exe on the
CDROM and then run it like so:

    E:\> tools\fdimage floppies\kern.flp a:

The fdimage program will format the A: drive and then copy
kern.flp to it (assuming that you are at the top level of
a FreeBSD distribution and the floppy images live in a
floppies subdirectory, which is typically the case).

If you are using a UNIX-based system to create the boot
floppies, do the following:

    # dd if=kern.flp of=disk_device

disk_device is the /dev entry for the floppy drive. On FreeBSD,
this is /dev/rfd0 for the A: drive and /dev/rfd1 for the B: drive.

-Troy



** -----Original Message-----
** From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
** [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jim Demetrios
** Kapakos
** Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 11:51 AM
** To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
** Subject: boot disks
** 
** 
** I'm having a hell of a time making boot disks, this maybe a stupid 
** question. But how do you make boot disks for BSD?
** 
** jim
** 
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