From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 7 19:28:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DDF937B401 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 19:28:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from host.hostwithclarity.net (host.hostwithclarity.net [209.239.35.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 683FA43FA3 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 19:28:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bwaldrep@lbtech.net) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (cpe-67-9-60-28.sw.rr.com [67.9.60.28]) by host.hostwithclarity.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h582S8319719 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 22:28:09 -0400 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 21:28:06 -0500 From: "Brent E. Waldrep" To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: Newbie question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 02:28:13 -0000 First thing, I know very little about Free BSD and Unix and Lunix I have just got a server off Ebay, and would like to install Free BSD on it. However, I'm getting stuck on the very first step, The bootable floppy disk. I have downloaded both mfsroot.flp and kern.flp, svaed them on a machine using win95. From there I go into MSDOS and at the c:\windows prompt type in fdimage kern.flp a: and is says bad command. What am I missing, and sorry this is such a basic question. Brent