From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 27 07:30:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA24685 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 07:30:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA24666 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 07:30:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA16794; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 17:29:13 +0200 (IST) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 17:29:12 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: bvn003@dog.he.boeing.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation questions In-Reply-To: <329B8690.4435@boeing.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Steve Blair wrote: > Hello: > > I purchased Free BSD 2.1 to install on a new Gateway > pentium pc. I have to CD from Walnut Creek in my ATAPI CD > drive. Prior to this I copied the boot.flp from the CD to a > floppy on my other PC that is running windows 95. When I > attempt to boot from this floopy the PC complains that the > floppy is not bootable. Am I approaching this correctly? > There isn't an atapi.flp file on the CD as the documentation > suggests, could this be the problem? First, it seems you've got 2.1.5 and not 2.1 (which is logical if you got the CD's lately). In that case, you don't need atapi.flp, boot.flp should be fine. However, you need to use the rawrite program (it's in the \tools directory on the CD) to create the bootable floppy, not the DOS/Win95 copy command. If you're still having trouble with it, try using rawrite under DOS (not Win95). While it works under Win95 for me, there are reports of it breaking under Win95. > > Thanks, Steve Blair > Nadav