Creating Boot Floppies

[mrunix]

I read where you can create the two boot floppies to build a BSD box. I tried but can't get it to work. Isn't one of the files larger than what can fit on a diskette? Try not to laugh; thanks in advance

 

[axvpaa]

hi,
ncftp ...6/4.7-RELEASE/floppies > ls -la
total 14586
drwxr-xr-x 2 65532 65532 512 Oct 8 14:24 .
drwxrwxr-x 20 65532 65532 1024 Oct 9 22:32 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 65532 65532 256 Oct 8 14:23 CHECKSUM.MD5
-r--r--r-- 1 65532 65532 59091 Oct 8 14:23 README.TXT
-rw-r--r-- 1 65532 65532 2949120 Oct 8 14:23 boot.flp
-rw-r--r-- 1 65532 65532 1474560 Oct 8 14:23 fixit.flp
-rw-r--r-- 1 65532 65532 1474560 Oct 8 14:22 kern.flp
-rw-r--r-- 1 65532 65532 1474560 Oct 8 14:20 mfsroot.flp
ncftp ...6/4.7-RELEASE/floppies >
you need only
kern.flp and mfsroot.flp to boot for FreeBSD install
check this link:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html

hth,
alex

 

[mrunix]

Thank you. fdimage worked, and rawrite didn't.