From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 23 18: 1:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B57F037B4CF for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:01:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from pacman.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@pacman.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.150]) by berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id VAA14126; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 21:01:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by pacman.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id VAA11164; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 21:01:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 21:01:07 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@pacman.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: Bert Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation from DOS In-Reply-To: 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 On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Bert wrote: > Hi There, I downloaded all the files from the tucows FTP site but now i'm not sure how to proceed. It says to copy the 5 .flp fies to a floppy but how do i do that , some files are twice the size of an 1.44 floppy. You must have downloaded them in ascii, instead of binary. Try the instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html Why download the files from somewhere besides FreeBSD? Either way, those are the best instructions. Also see http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/install.html#FLOPPY-IMAGE-TOO-LARGE Tim > Regards, > Bert. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message