Re: Floppies on VMware workstation FreeBSD guest

2010-06-21 Thread Francisco Reyes
Adam Vande More writes: I'm not sure that floppies are still working in this fashion, but even if they are it may be easier for you to do this via pxe or optical media. You mean to create a CD image and put the install.cfg instead of using a floppy image?

Re: Floppies on VMware workstation FreeBSD guest

2010-06-21 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Francisco Reyes li...@stringsutils.comwrote: Adam Vande More writes: I'm not sure that floppies are still working in this fashion, but even if they are it may be easier for you to do this via pxe or optical media. You mean to create a CD image and put the

Re: Floppies on VMware workstation FreeBSD guest

2010-06-21 Thread Francisco Reyes
Adam Vande More writes: Yes, you might be able to edit an existing image or use 'make release' to build your own. Or with pxe you can just put it on NFS. I was thinking of something perhaps even simpler. Mount a second CD image with just install.cfg. Will try that and see how it works.

Re: Floppies on VMware workstation FreeBSD guest

2010-06-20 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sunday 20 June 2010 05:19:30 Francisco Reyes wrote: Any has had any success with getting floppies to work on VMware desktop 7 on a FreeBSD guest? Did the following to prepare the floppy #Create empty floppy image dd if=/dev/zero bs=1k count=1440 of=/data/tmp/boot.flp #create md0 and

Floppies on VMware workstation FreeBSD guest

2010-06-19 Thread Francisco Reyes
Any has had any success with getting floppies to work on VMware desktop 7 on a FreeBSD guest? Did the following to prepare the floppy #Create empty floppy image dd if=/dev/zero bs=1k count=1440 of=/data/tmp/boot.flp #create md0 and point it to floppy mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /data/tmp/boot.flp

Re: Floppies on VMware workstation FreeBSD guest

2010-06-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Francisco Reyes li...@stringsutils.comwrote: Any has had any success with getting floppies to work on VMware desktop 7 on a FreeBSD guest? Any pointers will be greately appreciated. I'm not sure that floppies are still working in this fashion, but even if