Date: 08 Jun 2003 01:09:04 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: "Brent E. Waldrep" <bwaldrep@lbtech.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie question Message-ID: <44vfvh5f67.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <BB080966.1126C%bwaldrep@lbtech.net> References: <BB080966.1126C%bwaldrep@lbtech.net>
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"Brent E. Waldrep" <bwaldrep@lbtech.net> writes: > 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. You need to download fdimage as well. According to the installation directions for FreeBSD 4.8, it can be found here: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/
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