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For a normal CDROM or network installation, all you need to copy onto
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actual floppies from this directory are the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp
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images (for 1.44MB floppies).
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Get two blank, freshly formatted floppies and image copy kern.flp
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onto one and mfsroot.flp onto the other. These images are NOT DOS
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files! You cannot simply copy them to a DOS or UFS floppy as
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regular files, you need to "image" copy them to the floppy with
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fdimage.exe under DOS (see the tools/ directory on your CDROM or
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FreeBSD FTP mirror) or the `dd' command in UNIX.
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For example:
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To create the kern floppy image from DOS, you'd do something like
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this:
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C> fdimage kern.flp a:
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Assuming that you'd copied fdimage.exe and kern.flp into a directory
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somewhere. You would do the same for mfsroot.flp, of course.
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If you're creating the boot floppy from a UNIX machine, you may find
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that one of the following:
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dd if=floppies/kern.flp of=/dev/fd0
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dd if=floppies/kern.flp of=/dev/rfd0
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dd if=floppies/kern.flp of=/dev/floppy
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work well, depending on your hardware and operating system environment
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(different versions of UNIX have totally different names for the
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floppy drive - neat, huh? :-).
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If you're on an ALPHA machine which can network-boot its floppy images
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or you have a 2.88MB or LS-120 floppy capable of taking a 2.88MB image
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on an x86 machine, you may still wish to use the older (but now
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twice as large) boot.flp image which we also provide. That contains
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the contents of kern.flp and mfsroot.flp on a single floppy,
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essentially. This file should also be used as the boot file for those
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mastering "El Torito" bootable CD images. See the mkisofs(1) command
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for more information.
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Going to two installation boot floppies is a step we definitely
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would have rather avoided but we simply no longer could due to
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general code bloat and FreeBSD's many new device drivers in GENERIC.
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One positive side-effect of this new organizational scheme, however,
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is that it also allows one to easily make one's own kern or MFS
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floppies should a need to customize some aspect of the installation
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process or use a custom kernel for an otherwise unsupported piece of
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hardware arise. As long as the kernel is compiled with
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``options MFS'' and ``options MFS_ROOT'', it will properly look for
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and boot an mfsroot.flp image in memory when run (see how the
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/boot/loader.rc file in kern.flp does its thing). The mfsroot.flp
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image is also just a gzip'd filesystem image which is used as root,
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something which can be made rather easily using mdconfig(8).
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If none of that makes any sense to you then don't worry about it -
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just use the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp images as described above.
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