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Date:      Tue, 24 Jul 2001 13:29:38 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
To:        "Menke JR, Lorenz H" <lorenz.h.menke.jr@lmco.com>
Cc:        "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Installation
Message-ID:  <3B5DDAB2.678131D4@urx.com>
References:  <41965CE5636AD411B98A00508BDF12BC451F0A@emss04m02.ems.lmco.com>

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"Menke JR, Lorenz H" wrote:
> 
> I am trying to install the disk version of FreeBSD on a windows 2000 system.
> I am having problems with the fdimage image copy stage.  I have copied the
> two required files (mfsroot.flp and kern.flt) to my hard drive.  When I
> attempt to use fdimage with the command c> fdimage kern.flp a: I get a file
> too large error.  The disks were newly formatted.  Can you assist me in
> getting this stage completed?

Did they format to full 1.44 MB. What you tried to do is how I have
obtained my boot floppies since 2.2.8. I did use the command prompt
window and cd to where everything was stored on disk.

Kent

> 
> Thank you
> 
> Lorenz H. Menke, Jr.
> 
> Lockheed Martin Corporation, NE&SS - Software Engineering
> (856)787-3552
> 
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