From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 9:10:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ocelot.cs.odu.edu (ocelot.cs.odu.edu [128.82.4.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 609DF37B479 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:10:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from dilbert.cs.odu.edu (dilbert.cs.odu.edu [128.82.4.66]) by ocelot.cs.odu.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e9VH95o05604; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 12:09:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (kamath@localhost) by dilbert.cs.odu.edu (8.10.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id e9VHADR14022; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 12:10:13 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: dilbert.cs.odu.edu: kamath owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 12:10:13 -0500 (EST) From: Kamath To: Jeremiah Gowdy Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot.flp too big In-Reply-To: <004401c04352$333c6830$aa240018@cx443070b> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG gotcha. wow freebsd definitely looks like a very friendly organization. Thanks to all those who replied! Will ask more questions if I run into probs during the install. I got the floppy thing figured thanks to you guys. Reg, Praveen On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > Hello-- > > > > Boot.flp is too big to fit into a 1.44 Mb floppy! despite what the FAQ > > says. I get only around 1457664 bytes of free space after formatting a > > 1.44 MB floppy diskette on WindowsNT! What do I do to get around this > > problem? Create 2 diskettes? if so how do I do it, the fdimage program > > doesn't give any explicit options for usage. > > > > And for doing an FTP install of (freeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE on i386) do I > > really need boot.flp?? or is kern.flp and mfsroot.flp enough? > > heh. there's two options. if you have a 2.88 meg floppy drive, boot.flp is > for you. If you don't, it's kern.flp, then mfsroot.flp when prompted. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message