Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 07:58:46 -0400 From: "Potts, Ross" <rpotts@harris.com> To: 'Mike Meyer' <mwm@mired.org>, Richard Lemieux <re_lemieux@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: trouble Message-ID: <95B669A7D872D41182A600508BDFFB8C12D5EA@mlbmx7.ess.harris.com>
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Use your CLI to ftp the files, and when you do, make doubly sure that you type in "bin" to insure that they are transferred without the carriage returns that Mike Meyer is speaking of. I know I hate downloading a 1.4 mb file over a 28.8 line only to discover I used the wrong transfer mode. :-) > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Meyer [SMTP:mwm@mired.org] > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 3:55 AM > To: Richard Lemieux > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: trouble > > Richard Lemieux writes: > > I am about to try freebsd but got stuck before beginning. When I try to > > fdimage kern and mfsroot I get the message file too big. My disks are fresh > > > formatted and indicate slightly larger than the file. Didn't think I would > > have trouble so soon. Any help??? > > Did you by any chance copy the file images in text mode? Doing so will > cause newline characters to be translated into carriage-return > newlines, which not only corrupt executables, but expand the image > files so they are slightly larger than they should be. > > <mike > > > > 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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