Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 04:32:46 +0100 (CET) From: Janko van Roosmalen <janko@compuserve.com> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: Kevin Anderson <watieri@earthlink.net>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installation Problem - Hardware Detection Message-ID: <20011103041446.Q1951-100000@parmenides.utp.xnet> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10111011516020.8304-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Annelise Anderson wrote: [snip] > I assume you really used kern.flp, not boot.flp. boot.flp is a 2.88-size > image for 2.88 floppy drives (which few of us have) and is also used as > the image the boots from a CD. > [snip] After a couple of FreeBSD installations, I installed FreeBSD 4.4 last week. And I did it again. Put in the wrong floppy. I find the names of the floppy images rather confusing. How about changing "boot.flp" to "boot288.flp" and the kernel.flp and mfsroot.flp to "boot144a.flp" and "boot144b.flp" ? Janko van Roosmalen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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