Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:22:44 +0100 (BST) From: Mac <mac@ngo.org.uk> To: hamellr@heorot.1nova.com (Rick Hamell) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Floppies Message-ID: <200009141622.RAA11886@ngo.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009130707330.34234-100000@heorot.1nova.com> from Rick Hamell at "Sep 13, 0 07:11:39 am"
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Rick Hamell Wrote
>
> Moved to -questions
>
> > I am having trouble creating the boot disks via FTP. The files kern.flp and
> > mfsroot.flp are 1.473Mbs large and don't fit into my 1.44Mbs formatted
> > floppies. When I try to fdimage I get an error message that states that the
> > file is too large. What am I doing wrong or what do I have to do? I am
> > really interested in installing my FreeBSD after all the research I have
> > done and noting that Yahoo runs all there servers on FreeBSD I want to start
> > learning and take advantage of all the benefits of FreeBSD. Please help.
>
> Redownload the floppies, this time make sure you done them as
> binary files. Then do fdimage from the c: prompt. That will image the .flp
> files on to the disks. :) Speaking of which... has anyone noticed that dd
> is a LOT faster then fdimage... ? At least when making boot disks.. :)
>
Most likely the difference is because 'fdimage' formats the disk as it goes.
'dd' doesn't bother.
Mac
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