Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:10:27 -0600 (CST) From: "Roger P. Johnson" <rpj@fep.hirshfields.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Solved: 3.3R/3.4R: can't get to /stand/sysinstall from boot floppies ... Message-ID: <200001102310.RAA05220@fep.hirshfields.com> In-Reply-To: <200001101333.OAA13761@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> from Oliver Fromme at "Jan 10, 0 02:33:01 pm"
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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 <rpj@fep.hirshfields.com> 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
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