From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 28 05:59:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA12854 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 05:59:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from valhalla.stormking.com (root@valhalla.stormking.com [204.141.98.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA12847 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 05:59:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tucslap.UUCP (root@localhost) by valhalla.stormking.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id IAA05430; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 08:59:20 -0400 Received: (from tuc@localhost) by tucslap.stormking.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA00919; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 08:56:58 -0400 From: "Scott J. Ellentuch" Message-Id: <199704281256.IAA00919@tucslap.stormking.com> Subject: Re: installing freebsd To: kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 08:56:57 -0400 (EDT) Cc: tuc@stormking.com, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Kevin Eliuk" at Apr 26, 97 11:24:24 pm Reply-To: tuc@stormking.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Well you got me so curious I had to try it. > > Heres my step by step from dos: > > 1> From Netscape http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html > [2.2.1-RELEASE] > 2> Click right hand mouse key on link-Installation Boot Image > Been there. > > 3> Chose: save as ... and D/L to dir > 4> cd to dir that has boot.flp and rawrite.exe > 5> rawrite > 6> when asked for source file name :boot.flp > 7> " " " Destination drive: a: > 8> Inserted `formatted' floppy and pressed enter > 9> After completion rebooted to floppy :-) > Done that. Still the same problem. The image is 1,474,567 and the disk is 1,45?,??? (Can't rememeber exactly). When I do boot the disk, I get the FreeBSD header, it tried to boot kernel, and says it can't find it. Thats alot more than I expected since it didn't write the entire .flp to the disk. I looked around, and EVERY image is 1,474,567 . Logic dictates to me that everyone should experience the same problem. But they don't. I've formatted the disk a few times, there are NO bad parts to it. When you format a floppy, what is the final byte count? Tuc/TTSG -- Scott J. Ellentuch, The Telecom Security Group/TTSG, Newburgh, NY Visit our Web Site at http://www.ttsg.com/ "Over the UUCP link, out the ethernet, through the media converter, down the fiber, off a router, down the 56K, past my ISP...nothing but Net" - with poetic license from Dave Owen of IBM