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i am trying 2 install bsd 5.3 on my 486,the installation guide goes like this
" Get approximately three blank, freshly formatted floppies and image copy
boot.flp onto one and the kernX.flp files onto the others. These images
are not DOS files. You cannot simply copy them to a DOS or UFS floppy as
regular files, you need to ``image'' copy them to the floppy with
fdimage.exe under DOS (see the tools directory on your CDROM or FreeBSD
FTP mirror) or the dd(1) command in UNIX.
For example, to create the kernel 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. You would do the same for the kernX.flp files, of course.
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/fd0
or
# dd if=floppies/boot.flp of=/dev/floppy
work well, depending on your hardware and operating system environment
(different versions of UNIX have different names for the floppy drive)."
what does image copy mean,how should i do it,and what ll happen if an ordinary copy is made.
pls visit this topic often as i ll have more doubts 2 ask on free bsd 5.3
" Get approximately three blank, freshly formatted floppies and image copy
boot.flp onto one and the kernX.flp files onto the others. These images
are not DOS files. You cannot simply copy them to a DOS or UFS floppy as
regular files, you need to ``image'' copy them to the floppy with
fdimage.exe under DOS (see the tools directory on your CDROM or FreeBSD
FTP mirror) or the dd(1) command in UNIX.
For example, to create the kernel 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. You would do the same for the kernX.flp files, of course.
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/fd0
or
# dd if=floppies/boot.flp of=/dev/floppy
work well, depending on your hardware and operating system environment
(different versions of UNIX have different names for the floppy drive)."
what does image copy mean,how should i do it,and what ll happen if an ordinary copy is made.
pls visit this topic often as i ll have more doubts 2 ask on free bsd 5.3