From time to time Be releases minor software updates and makes
                   them available for downloading. This BeOS Boot Floppy (x86) supplements the
                   BeOS Release 3.2 Update and updates your boot floppy disk for your PC.

                   This software update was released on July 29, 1998.

                    

                   Description

                   This update contains updates to the BeOS Release 3 boot floppy disk. For
                   information regarding the specific changes and improvements, see the BeOS
                   Release 3.2 Update page:

                    

                   Who Needs This Update

                   All BeOS Release 3.x users should have a current BeOS Boot Floppy.

                   This update is for the BeOS running on Intel Architecture only.

                    

                   Getting and Using the Boot Floppy

                   The BeOS Boot Floppy (x86) consists of a singe floppy image file. Creating an
                   updated boot floppy consists of downloading the image file and using the BeOS
                   command line to copy the image onto a floppy disk.

                     1.Download the BeOS Boot Floppy (x86) image archive from the
                        BeDepot.com web site:

                        Download software archive:

                         BeOS Boot Floppy for Intel
                         Architecture
                         Size: 158 KB






                     2.Decompress the archive using Expander.

                        You should be able to simply double-click the downloaded archive, and click
                        the Expand button in Expander.

                     3.Launch Terminal, the BeOS command line application.

                     4.Change directory (cd) to the directory that contains the downloaded
                        image file.

                        Most likely you downloaded the file to your home directory. That's the
                        default directory for Terminal, too, so if the image file is in /home, you don't
                        need to cd to a different directory.

                     5.Insert a floppy disk into your computer's floppy disk drive.

                     6.Copy the image file data to the floppy disk using the following
                        command:

                        dd if=intel_boot_floppy_r3.2.img of=/dev/disk/floppy/raw

                        You can copy the command from your browser window and paste it into
                        Terminal if you are unclear about the above command.

                        Your floppy disk drive will whir for a while, and then stop.

                     7.Flush all of the data to the floppy disk (just to be safe) with the
                        following command:

                        sync

                     8.Use the new boot floppy in place of the boot floppy that came with
                        your BeOS Release 3 CD.

                    

                   Notes for Users of Other Operating Systems

                   If for some reason you cannot boot into the BeOS to create your boot floppy
                   (perhaps you use only the boot floppy to boot the BeOS, instead of a boot
                   manager), you can still create a BeOS boot floppy, using either Linux or Windows.

                   For Linux users:

                        The steps are essentially the same, except in Step 6, use this
                        command instead of the one given above:

                        dd if=intel_boot_floppy_r3.2.img of=/dev/fd0

                   For Windows users:

                     1.Download and decompress the disk image archive, using the
                        download panel above, and your favorite archive handler.

                        Be sure you download the archive using a binary mode transfer!

                     2.Download the RAWRITE.EXE utility from the FreeBSD web site:

                        ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/.25/FreeBSD/tools/

                     3.Copy RAWRITE.EXE to the same directory as the disk image file.

                     4.Open an MS-DOS command line promt, and start RAWRITE.EXE using
                        the following command:

                        rawrite

                     5.When asked for the source file, type:

                        intel_boot_floppy_r3.2.img

                     6.When asked for the destination drive, type:

                        a:

                        (Or whatever drive name you have configured as your floppy disk drive.)
                    

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