Installation of 5.3 over network fails on boot up.

[Kris Maglione]

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> On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:27:51AM +0100, Arne Engø wrote:
>
>/> I have been using FreeBSD earlier, but am new to the 5.0-Release.
/>/> The boot.flp image seems to be twice the size of an ordinary floppy, while the other four images in the floppies-directory fits on exactly one disk each. What are the BOOT.FLP disk for ? How is it to be used, and how do I use it on a 1.44 - floppy disk drive system ??? I would appreciate a speedy reply, as I'm trying to set up a new system with Freebsd 5.0-release.
/>
> You don't use boot.flp with a 1.44Mb floppy drive.  You can use
> boot.flp with a 2.88Mb floppy drive, but relatively few people have
> one of those.  You can also use it to build certain styles of bootable
> CD Rom -- although I think even that use is verging on the obsolete
> nowadays.




Joe Dunsmore wrote:

>I was going to install 5.3 on a computer using the install over network 
>option.  I imaged boot.flp, kern1.flp, and kern2.flp to floppy disks using dd 
>(not cp) and started the computer up with the boot disk in the drive.  After 
>seeing the ascii spinning thing (|, /, -, \, etc.), the computer spit this 
>out:
>
>error 4 lba 248
>Invalid format
>
>FreeBSD/i386 boot
>Default: 0:fd(0,a)/kernel
>boot:
>No /kernel
>
>FreeBSD/i386 boot
>Default: 0:fd(0,a)/kernel
>boot:
>
>
>I tried this on a few different disks, so that's not the problem.  Any ideas 
>what's wrong?
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