Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 18:49:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Whalen <bri@sonicboom.org> To: Ben Turner <turnball_@hotmail.com> Cc: bsdq <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 2.2.4 Message-ID: <20011001184500.A86914-100000@cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com> In-Reply-To: <OE182H67yRLVbNDN4Cx0000755a@hotmail.com>
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In ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.4-RELEASE/floppies/ you'll want kern.flp and mfsroot.flp. Save em to a dir on your hard disk, them use ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/fdimage.exe to make floppies. Heres directions, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html Brian "Sonic" Whalen Success = Preparation + Opportunity On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Ben Turner wrote: > Ok working on the FTP install now since that seems to be the general > consesus. Looking for those boot disks now. Can't seem to find them on the > freeBSD.org site. Pardon me for my ignorance... Im from the Windows > environment and I am trying to incorporate some Unix distributed > applications to my organization. I am just plain used to there being some > image to click on called "Boot disk" and Im unsure of the terms for it in > the Unix platform.... > > Ben > > PS Thanks to everyone who has helped. Im actually stating to think that it > isnt a hopeless idea. :) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Annelise Anderson" <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> > To: "Ben Turner" <turnball_@hotmail.com> > Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 11:22 AM > Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 2.2.4 > > > > On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Ben Turner wrote: > > > > > Yea I figured out that it was an extremely old version after I had > gotten > > > the disks to finally boot up. I tried to get the newer 4.3 but I > couldn't > > > get it on a disk properly. I have burned the 4.4, 4.3, and 4.2 verison > and > > > all of them are not viewable after I burn them. Since I haven't been > able > > > to view the files on the disk, I haven't been able to make any boot > disks. > > > For some reason none of these cd's are bootable either. > > > > Sounds to me like you're copying the ISO image, not creating a file system > > from it. If you can't view the files after you burn the image (view the > > directory listings and open text files, in Windows or FreeBSD) you haven't > > got what you need. > > > > Annelise > > > > > > -- > > Annelise Anderson > > Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC > > Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com > > Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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