Creating Installation Floppies
The FreeBSD installation DVD included with this book is bootable. If you plan to install on a system that supports booting from the CD/DVD drive, you can probably skip this section. If your optical drive does not support booting or if you plan to install from some method other than from the DVD (such as installing over a network), read on.
If you’re installing over a network or if your system doesn’t support booting from a DVD, you need to create three boot floppy disks so that you can boot the system with a bare kernel and minimal skeleton operating system, which then downloads the entire operating system from the FreeBSD FTP server and installs it onto your hard disk. The boot disks are created by copying disk ...
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