Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 22:06:30 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Wes Baehr <wbaehr@mac.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot floopies Message-ID: <200108260406.f7Q46UQ17021@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <B7ADE7A1.1831%wbaehr@mac.com>
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On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 23:39:13 -0400 Wes Baehr wrote:
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| I created the 2 boot floppies (kern.flp, and mfsroot.flp) on my FreeBSD box
| using dd, in hopes on starting them on my Packard Bell to use an FTP install
| to my current FreeBSD computer because that computer has no CD-Rom.
| The kern.flp boots fine, but after trying to load the MFS Root floppy, i get
| these messages:
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Floppy disks are notoriously poor media. Never trust the factory format.
Always reformat them using fdormat and throw away disks that do not format
perfectly.
Good Luck
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Chris Fedde
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