Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 12:10:13 -0500 (EST) From: Kamath <kamath@cs.odu.edu> To: Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot.flp too big Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10010311209060.14018-100000@dilbert.cs.odu.edu> In-Reply-To: <004401c04352$333c6830$aa240018@cx443070b>
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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
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