From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 26 13:56: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.hccnet.nl (pop.hccnet.nl [193.172.127.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58EC137B43C for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 13:55:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.utp.net by pop.hccnet.nl via uds41-115.dial.hccnet.nl [193.173.115.41] with ESMTP id WAA17951 (8.8.5/1.13); Sat, 26 Aug 2000 22:55:52 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (janko@localhost) by parmenides.utp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA00379; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 22:42:49 GMT (envelope-from janko@compuserve.com) X-Authentication-Warning: parmenides.utp.net: janko owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 22:42:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Janko van Roosmalen X-Sender: janko@parmenides.utp.net To: Gary W Olson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD Powerpak 4.0 In-Reply-To: <39A7FDF3.F927A52C@frontiernet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What is exactly your problem? Where does creating the floppies fail? Did not typing from a DOS prompt: d:\floppies\fdimage d:\floppies\kern.flp a: and d:\floppies\fdimage d:\floppies\mfsroot.flp a: work? (d: is the drive letter under DOS/Windows from your CDROM drive) Dragging, cut&paste them in Explorer will not work. If you happen to have a Linux CD, it has another program called "rawrite" which you also could use. If you still have DRDOS/Novell/Caldera DOS you can use the diskcopy with the "diskimage" option. If you want I can email you the "rawrite" program. Janko van Roosmalen - Holland On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Gary W Olson wrote: > Why aren't the boot floppies included in the package like Linux > distributions have? > Quite frankly, creating the floppies have been such an unsuccessful > problem that I am considering > abandoning BSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message