Re: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT

2003-08-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:27:31PM -0700, R B wrote: hi my name is pyr0teknix696 and i've been using linux for 3 years and decided to try freebsd on an old AST x486 with 32MB ram and a 3.16G HDD my problem is that the BIOS is not able to boot from CROM drives so i read through the docs and

Re: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT

2003-08-22 Thread Armand Passelac
I'm not an FreeBSD expert (as you I'm coming from linux). But when I installed my FreeBSD on my old PC, I used these commands to preparing boot floppies : (On linux ...) : dd if=/mnt/cdrom/floppies/kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b dd if=/mnt/cdrom/floppies/mfsroot.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b dd

Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT

2003-08-21 Thread R B
hi my name is pyr0teknix696 and i've been using linux for 3 years and decided to try freebsd on an old AST x486 with 32MB ram and a 3.16G HDD my problem is that the BIOS is not able to boot from CROM drives so i read through the docs and BSD and it says to create boot floppies with fdimage i do