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. If

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 wrote: > 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 in

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

2010-06-20 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

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 wrote: > 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 they are it may b

Re: Floppies

2003-08-29 Thread David
he info. David - Original Message - From: "Lowell Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 9:08 AM Subject: Re: Floppies > "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Re: Floppies

2003-08-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is the error I get when trying to install FBSD using kern.flp and mfsroot.flp > for 5.1-RELEASE. Offhand, these look like problems with the floppies. Try other disks, and make sure you don't download the images in "text" mode. Also, you might want to