Darryl Hoar wrote:
Checked dmesg and the floppy controller
is recognized, etc.
It's often helpful to paste your dmesg into your question with problems
of this sort. From my dmesg:
fdc0: Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone) port
0x3f7,0x3f0-0
x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0:
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Darryl Hoar wrote:
Checked dmesg and the floppy controller
is recognized
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Darryl Hoar wrote:
Checked dmesg and the floppy controller
Greetings back,
You could try the following:
dd if=./kern.flp of=/dev/fd0a
That might fix your problem.
R.
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Darryl Hoar wrote:
Greetings,
I am running FreeBSD 4.7-stable. I am
trying to make new boot floppies so I
can install Freebsd on another machine.
When I try
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Greetings back,
You could try the following:
dd if=./kern.flp
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Greetings back,
You could try the following:
dd
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Jerry McAllister wrote:
Is the floppy formatted? Used fdformat for that or do it
on a MS machine.
Also, write to /dev/fd0c or /dev/rfd0c.
Here is just what I do and have done many times.
First format two floppies for 1.4 meg using fdformat
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Jerry McAllister wrote:
Is the floppy formatted? Used fdformat for that or do it
on a MS machine.
Also, write to /dev/fd0c or /dev/rfd0c.
Here is just what I do and have done many times.
First format two floppies for 1.4 meg using fdformat
Check it and use MAKEDEV to make them
(what happens after you get to 5.x I don't know yet,
haven't been there)
docd /dev
ls -l *fd0*
if you don't find an 'rfd0c' then make one
./MAKEDEV fd0 should do it
You might need to delete some stuff
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Technical Director wrote:
Maybe I'm wrong but isin't dd a raw write to the device when used
in this way? Hence a pre-formatting is not required?
A floppy will still need a low-level format before the first use.
Preformatting may help I'm not to sure, I know that I have
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