Re: creating custom FreeBSD boot floppies

2007-06-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. I want to create customized boot media, > the kern floppy image for sure and possibly the mfsroot disk, i would > like to know how they are made. I've found items, ut they seem to be > 4.x specific. Does anyone have this for 6.x? Th

creating custom FreeBSD boot floppies

2007-06-22 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. I want to create customized boot media, the kern floppy image for sure and possibly the mfsroot disk, i would like to know how they are made. I've found items, ut they seem to be 4.x specific. Does anyone have this for 6.x? Thanks. Dave.

Re: Boot floppies for FreeBSD 4,8

2004-10-02 Thread W. D.
At 10:14 10/2/2004, nigel henry, wrote: >Having multiple linux installs on my machines, I've had to use boot floppies >to boot some of em. I'm not too good at configuring GRUB or LiLo to chainload >to other bootloaders at the moment, so, is it possible when installing >

Boot floppies for FreeBSD 4,8

2004-10-02 Thread nigel henry
Having multiple linux installs on my machines, I've had to use boot floppies to boot some of em. I'm not too good at configuring GRUB or LiLo to chainload to other bootloaders at the moment, so, is it possible when installing FreeBSD to make a boot floppy. I hav'nt install

boot floppies

2003-08-14 Thread James Litz
So I finally got up the courage to try FreeBSD... I got some CDs from osdisc.com, but my computer cant boot of off CDs (its just too old).. anyone know where i can find the boot floppies? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design

Re: boot floppies

2003-08-14 Thread SUPPORT
Try http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html#I NSTALL-FLOPPIES Peter Rosa - Original Message - From: "James Litz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 1:06 AM Subject: boot floppies >

Re: boot floppies

2003-08-14 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, James Litz wrote: > So I finally got up the courage to try FreeBSD... I > got some CDs from osdisc.com, but my computer cant > boot of off CDs (its just too old).. anyone know where > i can find the boot floppies? The boot floppies are on the 1st CD. Refe

Re: Trouble with 5.0-RELEASE boot floppies

2003-02-24 Thread Daniel Herring
ging ata1-slave: ATAPI identify retries exceeded ad0: 1549MB [3148/16/63] at ata0-master BIOSPIO acd0: CDROM at ata1-master BIOSPIO Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a * dmesg end * As I mentioned before, the boot floppies start to launch sysinstall, and then everything locks up. Is there

Re: Trouble with 5.0-RELEASE boot floppies

2003-02-23 Thread Kevin Stevens
t bet is to put more memory in and see how that goes first. > next, try to get -current boot floppies and see if the same error is there. > 5.0 is stil not production material, so re-read the early adopters guide and > be prepared to go to work if you really want 5.0 on this machine. You may

Re: Trouble with 5.0-RELEASE boot floppies

2003-02-23 Thread taxman
to get -current boot floppies and see if the same error is there. 5.0 is stil not production material, so re-read the early adopters guide and be prepared to go to work if you really want 5.0 on this machine. You may be better off upgrading to 4.7rel or 4.8 when it comes out. > Current OS:

Trouble with 5.0-RELEASE boot floppies

2003-02-23 Thread Daniel Herring
Does anyone have any idea what is wrong or how I can avoid this? I successfully installed version 4-3 from boot floppies a couple years ago... Version 4.3 still boots fine... This happens even if I disconnect the HD... I've enabled and disabled most of the BIOS settings (ports, PNP OS, ...) A

Re: unable to boot from FreeBSD cd's(using boot floppies now)

2003-01-06 Thread sufisuley
On Monday 06 January 2003 23:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using boot floppies now, though if anyone has ideas on the cd booting problems please let me know. Thanks > I bought FreeBSD powerpack ( 4.6 ) some months back and most recently > downloaded 4.7 iso's then burned them with