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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!pacbell.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet.pa.dec.com!jkh From: jkh@sentnl.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Installing freeBSD Date: 30 Mar 1994 10:43:29 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.94Mar30114330@sentnl.ilo.dec.com> References: <2n7rd4$lke@news.cs.tulane.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sentnl.ilo.dec.com In-reply-to: loki@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu's message of 29 Mar 1994 00:05:56 GMT In article <2n7rd4$lke@news.cs.tulane.edu> loki@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu (the mischeivious god) writes: I just got my cd-rom copy of freeBSD...it did not come with an installation diskette....and to make it bootable I would have to format it from an already operating BSD system right? So how can they call it an installation diskette? No. There are images for the installation diskettes on the CD, and you're expected to mount it on a DOS machine (lowest common denominator) to make the images. There is even a rawrite.exe utility included for that purpose. Since just about every machine ships with DOS whether it likes it or not, this is not all that much to ask. Shipping a floppy with every CD would have increased the cost (no, floppies don't cost that much, but manufacturing them and dealing with possible additional defects sure does!). Of course, if you have another UNIX box around you can also make the boot diskettes from that - it doesn't HAVE to be DOS (OS/2 or NT would also work just as well). Jordan