Simon: I prepared both kern.flp & mfsroot.flp. When i tried to format one of those into a DOS bootdisk, it was formatted but without the system files. Scandisk showed sectors marked "bad". The disk was unbootable. Is there anyway that that disk can be cleaned up?
Regards Harsha Godavari Simon Dick wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 07:26:27PM +0000, Richard Durham wrote: > > > > I have checked both releases 4.5 and 4.6, the boot.flp file is 2.8mb?? How > > can that be transferred to a single floppy? > > I've searched everywhere and found no answers. > > When trying to copy to a floppy Rawrite just registers an error - bad > > sector: 1 > > > > Should the file be split and if so how? > > The 2.88mb floppy image is usually used to boot the cdrom, or for people > with 2.88mb floppy drives. If you have the more common 1.44mb one then > you need to write kern.flp and mfsroot.flp to seperate floppies. > > -- > Simon Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message