Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:33:32 -0400 From: "Anthony Joint" <ajoint@jointcs.net> To: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@urx.com>, "Menke JR, Lorenz H" <lorenz.h.menke.jr@lmco.com> Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installation Message-ID: <00a501c1147f$ed1ce320$2b8190a9@ajoint> References: <41965CE5636AD411B98A00508BDF12BC451F0A@emss04m02.ems.lmco.com> <3B5DDAB2.678131D4@urx.com>
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I have also seen problems when ftp'd in ASCII mode. Make absolutely sure that you've not transfered these files using ASCII mode at any point. Also check that there were no bad sectors on the disk. -tony ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@urx.com> To: "Menke JR, Lorenz H" <lorenz.h.menke.jr@lmco.com> Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 4:29 PM Subject: Re: Installation > > > "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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > Cool site > http://www.bmwfilms.com > > mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com > http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html > http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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