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| author | jkh <jkh@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-03-07 12:35:57 +0000 |
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| committer | jkh <jkh@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-03-07 12:35:57 +0000 |
| commit | 656f1a920737e0cbf6dbcd3424f90308b95ccbac (patch) | |
| tree | 55c5ee9a3ed5d30a77509bd1d2714cd1c0feb60d /share | |
| parent | e2b0343661ea487838ed92e8f8eadd0edd4fab63 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-656f1a920737e0cbf6dbcd3424f90308b95ccbac.zip FreeBSD-src-656f1a920737e0cbf6dbcd3424f90308b95ccbac.tar.gz | |
Update installation info for upcoming releases.
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diff --git a/share/doc/handbook/install.sgml b/share/doc/handbook/install.sgml index 35ddfdd..b9e97e7 100644 --- a/share/doc/handbook/install.sgml +++ b/share/doc/handbook/install.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $Id$ --> +<!-- $Id: install.sgml,v 1.51 1997/02/22 12:58:39 peter Exp $ --> <!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project --> <!-- @@ -45,29 +45,22 @@ name="installation boot disk image"> file to your hard drive, and be sure to tell your browser to <em>save</em> rather than <em>display</em>. - <bf>Note:</bf> This disk image can be used for - <em>both</em> 1.44 megabyte 3.5 inch floppy disks and - 1.2 megabyte 5.25 inch floppy disks.</item> + <bf>Note:</bf> This disk image can only be used with + 1.44 megabyte 3.5 inch floppy disks.</item> <item>Make the installation boot disk from the image file: <itemize> <item>If you are using MS-DOS download <url -url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/tools/rawrite.exe" - name="rawrite.exe">, then run it: +url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/tools/fdimage.exe" + name="fdimage.exe">, then run it like so: <tscreen><verb> -C:\> rawrite +E:\> tools\fdimage floppies\boot.flp a: </verb></tscreen> The - program will prompt you for the floppy drive - containing the disk you want to write to (A: or - B:) and the name of the file to put on disk (boot.flp). - - <p><bf>Note:</bf> It has been widely reported that Windows95 - will only successfully support rawrite.exe in DOS mode - and that Windows NT prevents it from working at all. You - will have to make your floppy images on a different machine - if you are running Windows NT and boot first into DOS mode if - you are running Windows95.</p></item> + program will format the A: drive and then copy the + boot.flp image onto it (assuming that you're at the top + level of a FreeBSD distribution and the floppy images + live in the floppies subdirectory). <item>If you are using a UNIX system: <tscreen> |
