From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 10 15:50: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from abby.skypoint.net (abby.skypoint.net [199.86.32.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48685150C2 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:49:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rpj@fep.hirshfields.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by abby.skypoint.net (8.8.7/jl 1.3) with UUCP id RAA17421 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:45:35 -0600 (CST) Received: (from rpj@localhost) by fep.hirshfields.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05220 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:10:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from rpj) From: "Roger P. Johnson" Message-Id: <200001102310.RAA05220@fep.hirshfields.com> Subject: Solved: 3.3R/3.4R: can't get to /stand/sysinstall from boot floppies ... In-Reply-To: <200001101333.OAA13761@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> from Oliver Fromme at "Jan 10, 0 02:33:01 pm" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:10:27 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bingo! You where absolutely right Oliver. Bad floppies. I did an fdformat /dev/rfd0 and got verification errors. After reformatting a new floppy and dd'ing mfsroot.flp to it, it now boots up and I can get to the sysinstall program. Hot Dog! > Roger P. Johnson wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > > dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rsd0 > > dd if=mfsroot.flp of=/dev/rsd0 > > I guess that's a typo... should be /dev/rfd0. Yup. I see that now. So much for trying to be acurate in the posts! Thanks, Roger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message