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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD install troubles
Date: 17 Jan 1996 23:03:02 GMT
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Erik Stenerud <mock@res.com> writes:

> The only problem is.. I don't know how to START the damn thing going.
> 
> How do I boot into the install for FreeBSD?

Copy the floppies/boot.flp file onto a diskette (1.2M/1.44M, doesn't
matter).  This must be a `raw' copy, so if you're running DOS, use the
program tools/rawrite.exe to make this copy.  The target floppy must
be 100 % okay.

I assume you're going to install from a DOS partition, so please read
the section about the required directory structure on the source disk
carefully.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)