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Date:      Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:10:52 -0700
From:      John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>
To:        Robert Tucker <rqtucker@home.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Getting the floppy images
Message-ID:  <15128.1244.403088.727011@hip186.ch.intel.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B17FCD0.6C55B883@home.com>
References:  <3B17FCD0.6C55B883@home.com>

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[ moving to -questions which is more appropriate to non-doc related questions ]
[ On Friday, June 1, Robert Tucker wrote: ]
>
> I am trying to do this from scratch and it is already turning hard!
> First I got my floppies ready (4 of them) and then clicked on the
> boot.flp, but instead of going into ftp mode it tried to display the

you don't need for floppies for one thing. See the handbook:

 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/install-guide.html#INSTALL-FLOPPIES

you want kern.flp and mfsroot.flp. boot.flp is not what you want. The chapter
shows how to write the files as well.

> Where have I gone wrong? Could the HTML be the problem?

nope.

> I checked further and two files were downloaded, they were list as:
> M0rnjkfl.flp and M1iehrdm.flp. Are these the files?

sounds like windows screwing something up to me.

-Jr

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