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authorjkh <jkh@FreeBSD.org>1997-07-31 10:59:50 +0000
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For a normal CDROM or network installation, all you need to copy onto an
actual floppy from this directory is the boot.flp image (for 1.44MB floppies).
-NOTE: These images are NOT DOS files! You cannot simply copy them to a DOS
-floppy as regular files, you need to *image* copy them to the floppy with
-rawrite.exe or `dd' under UNIX (again, please see the installation docs
-[in INSTALL.TXT] for details). Also note that the rawrite.exe program
-ONLY WORKS UNDER DOS. If you're running Win95, boot into DOS mode before
-running it. If you're running NT, use a different machine to make your
-boot floppy. Both Win95 and WinNT interfere with rawrite's abiltiy to
-talk directly to the floppy drive.
+NOTE: These images are NOT DOS files! You cannot simply copy them to
+a DOS floppy as regular files, you need to *image* copy them to the
+floppy with fdimage.exe under DOS or `dd' under UNIX.
+
+For example:
+
+To create the boot floppy image from DOS, you'd do something like
+this:
+
+C> fdimage boot.flp a:
+
+Assuming that you'd copied fdimage.exe and boot.flp into a directory
+somewhere. If you were doing this from the base of a CD distribution,
+then the *exact* command would be:
+
+E> tools\fdimage floppies\boot.flp a:
+
+
+If you're creating the boot floppy from a UNIX machine, you may find
+that:
+
+ dd if=floppies/boot.flp of=/dev/rfd0
+
+or
+
+ dd if=floppies/boot.flp of=/dev/floppy
+
+work well, depending on your hardware and operating system environment
+(different versions of UNIX have totally different names for the
+floppy drive - neat, huh? :-).
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