Rewrite the "Creating the Installation Floppies" section, based on feedback
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<chapter id="install">
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The list should include their IRQs and IO port addresses.</para>
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<sect3 id="install-floppies">
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<title>Creating the Boot Floppies</title>
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<title>Creating the Installation Floppies</title>
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<para>Please read the <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/&rel.current;-RELEASE/floppies/README.TXT">installation
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boot image information</ulink> before proceeding. To make the
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installation boot disks from the image files, do the
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following:</para>
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<para>You may need to prepare some floppy disks. These disks will
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be used to boot your computer in to the FreeBSD install process.
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This step is not necessary <emphasis>if</emphasis> you are
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installing from CD-ROM, <emphasis>and</emphasis> your computer
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supports booting from the CD-ROM. If you do not meet these
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requirements then you will need to create some floppies to boot
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from.</para>
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<para>Download the image
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files. These can be retrieved from the <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/&rel.current;-RELEASE/floppies/">floppies directory</ulink>
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of the FreeBSD FTP site or your local mirror.</para>
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<note>
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<para>If you are not sure whether your computer can boot from the
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CD-ROM it does not hurt to try. Just insert the CD-ROM as
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normal and restart your computer. You might need to adjust some
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options in your BIOS so that your computer will try and boot
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from the CD-ROM drive before the hard disk.</para>
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</note>
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<tip>
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<para>Even if you have the CD-ROM it might make sense for you to
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download the files. There have been occasions where bugs in the
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FreeBSD installer have been discovered after the CDs have been
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released. When this happens the copies of the images on the FTP
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site will be fixed as soon as possible. Obviously, it is not
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possible to update the CDs after they have been pressed.</para>
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</tip>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>If you are installing from an MS-DOS partition,
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download the <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/fdimage.exe">fdimage.exe</ulink>
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program or get it from <filename>tools\fdimage.exe</filename>
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on the CDROM and then run it like so:</para>
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<procedure>
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<step>
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<title>Acquire the boot floppy images</title>
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<para>These are files with a <filename>.flp</filename>
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extension. If you have a CD-ROM release of FreeBSD then you
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will find the files in the <filename>floppies</filename>
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subdirectory. Alternatively, you can download the images from
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the <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/&rel.current;-RELEASE/floppies/">floppies directory</ulink> of the FreeBSD FTP site or your local mirror.</para>
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<screen><prompt>E:\></prompt> <userinput>tools\fdimage floppies\kern.flp a:</userinput></screen>
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<para>The names of the files you will need varies between
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FreeBSD releases (sometimes) and the architecture you will be
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installing on. The <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/&rel.current;-RELEASE/floppies/README.TXT">installation
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boot image information</ulink> on the FTP site provides
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up-to-the-minute information about the specific files you will
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need.</para>
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</step>
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<para>The <emphasis>fdimage</emphasis> program will format
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the <devicename>A:</devicename> drive and then copy
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<filename>kern.flp</filename> to it (assuming that you are
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at the top level of a FreeBSD distribution and the floppy
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images live in a <filename>floppies</filename>
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subdirectory, which is typically the case).</para>
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</listitem>
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<step>
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<title>Prepare the floppy disks</title>
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<para>You must prepare one floppy disk per image file you had to
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download. It is imperitive that these disks are free from
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defects. The easiest way to test this is to format the disks
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for yourself. Do not trust pre-formatted floppies.</para>
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<listitem>
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<para>If you are using a UNIX-based system to create the
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boot floppies, do the following:</para>
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<important>
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<para>If you try to install FreeBSD and the installation
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program crashes, freezes, or otherwise misbehaves one of
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the first things to suspect is the floppies. Try writing
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the floppy image files to some other disks, and try
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again.</para>
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</important>
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</step>
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<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dd if=kern.flp of=<replaceable>disk_device</replaceable></userinput></screen>
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<step>
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<title>Write the image files to the floppy disks.</title>
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<para><replaceable>disk_device</replaceable> is the
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<filename>/dev</filename> entry for the floppy drive. On
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FreeBSD, this is <filename>/dev/rfd0</filename> for the
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<devicename>A:</devicename> drive and
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<filename>/dev/rfd1</filename> for the
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<devicename>B:</devicename> drive.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>The image files, such as <filename>kern.flp</filename>,
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are <emphasis>not</emphasis> regular files you copy to the
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disk. Instead, they are images of the complete contents of
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the disk.</para>
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<para>With the <filename>kern.flp</filename> disk in your floppy
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drive, reboot your computer. After a couple of minutes
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(while the kernel loads from the floppy), you
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will be prompted to insert
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the <filename>mfsroot.flp</filename>, after which the
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installation will proceed normally.</para>
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<para>This means that you can <emphasis>not</emphasis> use
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commands like DOS' <command>copy</command> to write the
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files. Instead, you must use specific tools to write the
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images directly to the disk.</para>
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<para>If you are creating the floppies on a computer running DOS
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then we provide a tool to do this called
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<command>fdimage</command>.</para>
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<para>If you are using the floppies from the CD-ROM, and your
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CD-ROM is the <devicename>E:</devicename> drive then you would
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run this:</para>
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<screen><prompt>E:\></prompt> <userinput>tools\fdimage floppies\kern.flp</userinput></screen>
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<para>Repeat this command for each <filename>.flp</filename>
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file, replacing the floppy disk each time. Adjust the command
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line as necessary, depending on where you have placed the
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<filename>.flp</filename> files. If you do not have the
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CD-ROM then <command>fdimage</command> can be downloaded from
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the <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/&rel.current;-RELEASE/tools/"><filename>tools</filename> directory</ulink> on the FreeBSD FTP site.</para>
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<para>If you are writing the floppies on a Unix system (such as
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another FreeBSD system) you can use the &man.dd.1; command to
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write the image files directly to disk. On FreeBSD you would
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run:</para>
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<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rfd0</userinput></screen>
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<para>On FreeBSD <filename>/dev/rfd0</filename> refers to the
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first floppy disk (the <devicename>A:</devicename> drive).
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<filename>/dev/rfd1</filename> would be the
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<devicename>B:</devicename> drive, and so on. Other Unix
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variants might have different names for the floppy disk
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devices, and you will need to check the documentation for the
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system as necessary.</para>
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</step>
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</procedure>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="install-cdrom">
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<!--
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The FreeBSD Documentation Project
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$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml,v 1.44 2000/06/14 00:47:26 jim Exp $
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$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml,v 1.45 2000/06/15 22:56:38 jim Exp $
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-->
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<chapter id="install">
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The list should include their IRQs and IO port addresses.</para>
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<sect3 id="install-floppies">
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<title>Creating the Boot Floppies</title>
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<title>Creating the Installation Floppies</title>
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<para>Please read the <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/&rel.current;-RELEASE/floppies/README.TXT">installation
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boot image information</ulink> before proceeding. To make the
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installation boot disks from the image files, do the
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following:</para>
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<para>You may need to prepare some floppy disks. These disks will
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be used to boot your computer in to the FreeBSD install process.
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This step is not necessary <emphasis>if</emphasis> you are
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installing from CD-ROM, <emphasis>and</emphasis> your computer
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supports booting from the CD-ROM. If you do not meet these
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requirements then you will need to create some floppies to boot
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from.</para>
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<para>Download the image
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files. These can be retrieved from the <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/&rel.current;-RELEASE/floppies/">floppies directory</ulink>
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of the FreeBSD FTP site or your local mirror.</para>
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<note>
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<para>If you are not sure whether your computer can boot from the
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CD-ROM it does not hurt to try. Just insert the CD-ROM as
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normal and restart your computer. You might need to adjust some
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options in your BIOS so that your computer will try and boot
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from the CD-ROM drive before the hard disk.</para>
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</note>
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<tip>
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<para>Even if you have the CD-ROM it might make sense for you to
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download the files. There have been occasions where bugs in the
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FreeBSD installer have been discovered after the CDs have been
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released. When this happens the copies of the images on the FTP
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site will be fixed as soon as possible. Obviously, it is not
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possible to update the CDs after they have been pressed.</para>
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</tip>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>If you are installing from an MS-DOS partition,
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download the <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/fdimage.exe">fdimage.exe</ulink>
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program or get it from <filename>tools\fdimage.exe</filename>
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on the CDROM and then run it like so:</para>
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<procedure>
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<step>
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<title>Acquire the boot floppy images</title>
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<para>These are files with a <filename>.flp</filename>
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extension. If you have a CD-ROM release of FreeBSD then you
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will find the files in the <filename>floppies</filename>
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subdirectory. Alternatively, you can download the images from
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the <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/&rel.current;-RELEASE/floppies/">floppies directory</ulink> of the FreeBSD FTP site or your local mirror.</para>
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<screen><prompt>E:\></prompt> <userinput>tools\fdimage floppies\kern.flp a:</userinput></screen>
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<para>The names of the files you will need varies between
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FreeBSD releases (sometimes) and the architecture you will be
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installing on. The <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/&rel.current;-RELEASE/floppies/README.TXT">installation
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boot image information</ulink> on the FTP site provides
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up-to-the-minute information about the specific files you will
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need.</para>
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</step>
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<para>The <emphasis>fdimage</emphasis> program will format
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the <devicename>A:</devicename> drive and then copy
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<filename>kern.flp</filename> to it (assuming that you are
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at the top level of a FreeBSD distribution and the floppy
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images live in a <filename>floppies</filename>
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subdirectory, which is typically the case).</para>
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</listitem>
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<step>
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<title>Prepare the floppy disks</title>
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<para>You must prepare one floppy disk per image file you had to
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download. It is imperitive that these disks are free from
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defects. The easiest way to test this is to format the disks
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for yourself. Do not trust pre-formatted floppies.</para>
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<listitem>
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<para>If you are using a UNIX-based system to create the
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boot floppies, do the following:</para>
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<important>
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<para>If you try to install FreeBSD and the installation
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program crashes, freezes, or otherwise misbehaves one of
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the first things to suspect is the floppies. Try writing
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the floppy image files to some other disks, and try
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again.</para>
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</important>
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</step>
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<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dd if=kern.flp of=<replaceable>disk_device</replaceable></userinput></screen>
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<step>
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<title>Write the image files to the floppy disks.</title>
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<para><replaceable>disk_device</replaceable> is the
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<filename>/dev</filename> entry for the floppy drive. On
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FreeBSD, this is <filename>/dev/rfd0</filename> for the
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<devicename>A:</devicename> drive and
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<filename>/dev/rfd1</filename> for the
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<devicename>B:</devicename> drive.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>The image files, such as <filename>kern.flp</filename>,
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are <emphasis>not</emphasis> regular files you copy to the
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disk. Instead, they are images of the complete contents of
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the disk.</para>
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<para>With the <filename>kern.flp</filename> disk in your floppy
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drive, reboot your computer. After a couple of minutes
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(while the kernel loads from the floppy), you
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will be prompted to insert
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the <filename>mfsroot.flp</filename>, after which the
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installation will proceed normally.</para>
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<para>This means that you can <emphasis>not</emphasis> use
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commands like DOS' <command>copy</command> to write the
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files. Instead, you must use specific tools to write the
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images directly to the disk.</para>
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<para>If you are creating the floppies on a computer running DOS
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then we provide a tool to do this called
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<command>fdimage</command>.</para>
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<para>If you are using the floppies from the CD-ROM, and your
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CD-ROM is the <devicename>E:</devicename> drive then you would
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run this:</para>
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<screen><prompt>E:\></prompt> <userinput>tools\fdimage floppies\kern.flp</userinput></screen>
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<para>Repeat this command for each <filename>.flp</filename>
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file, replacing the floppy disk each time. Adjust the command
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line as necessary, depending on where you have placed the
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<filename>.flp</filename> files. If you do not have the
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CD-ROM then <command>fdimage</command> can be downloaded from
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the <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/&rel.current;-RELEASE/tools/"><filename>tools</filename> directory</ulink> on the FreeBSD FTP site.</para>
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<para>If you are writing the floppies on a Unix system (such as
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another FreeBSD system) you can use the &man.dd.1; command to
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write the image files directly to disk. On FreeBSD you would
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run:</para>
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<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rfd0</userinput></screen>
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<para>On FreeBSD <filename>/dev/rfd0</filename> refers to the
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first floppy disk (the <devicename>A:</devicename> drive).
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<filename>/dev/rfd1</filename> would be the
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<devicename>B:</devicename> drive, and so on. Other Unix
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variants might have different names for the floppy disk
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devices, and you will need to check the documentation for the
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system as necessary.</para>
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</step>
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</procedure>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="install-cdrom">
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