FreeBSD Handbook - correction for new versions of FreeBSD

In section:
2.12.1 Installing FreeBSD on a System without a
Monitor or Keyboard

The handbook incorrectly refers to the floppy images
for those using a newer version of FreeBSD.

For example:
To modify these floppies to boot into a serial
console, follow these steps:

   1.Enabling the Boot Floppies to Boot into a Serial
Console

If you were to boot into the floppies that you just
made, FreeBSD would boot into its normal install mode.
We want FreeBSD to boot into a serial console for our
install. To do this, you have to mount the kern.flp
floppy onto your FreeBSD system using the mount(8)
command.

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And:

That's it! You should now be able to control the
headless machine through your cu session. It will ask
you to put in the mfsroot.flp, and then it will come
up with a selection of what kind of terminal to use.
Select the FreeBSD color console and proceed with your
install!

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I am not sure when the floppy images changed. I am
right now doing a serial install of FreeBSD 6.1 with
the instructions provided, except writing the
boot.config to the boot.flp disk. After a while it
asks for the kern1.flp and kern2.flp disks rather than
the mfsroot.flp disk.

I just wanted to point this out for future revisions
in case it slipped by.

Thanks for the excellent Docs and OS!

Regards,

Winter



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