From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 17 04:37:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA03038 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 04:37:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from colossus.dyn.ml.org (dburr@206-18-115-231.la.inreach.net [206.18.115.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA03031 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 04:37:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dburr@colossus.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from dburr@localhost) by colossus.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA29765 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 04:39:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dburr) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 04:39:36 -0800 (PST) Organization: Computer Help From: Donald Burr To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: questions-digest V4 #119 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- My secret spy satellite informs me that on 17-Mar-98, questions-digest wrote: > Hi, I am trying to create a boot disk and running into a minor > problem: When I download the installation image file onto my hard > drive, it's 1.47 megs and won't fit on a 1.44 meg disk. What's up? > Your instructions say this file should fit on a 1.44 meg disk. I'm > using Win 95 to download - is this the problem and how do I work > around it? If you had REALLY read the instructions, you surely would have seen that these are disk *IMAGES*, *NOT* files. You *CAN'T* just use "copy" to copy them onto a floppy. You need a disk image writing program, such as RaWrite (should be available on the same ftp site as FreeBSD, under the "tools" (I think) subdirectory. - --- Donald Burr - Ask me for my PGP key | PGP: Your WWW HomePage: http://DonaldBurr.base.org/ ICQ #1347455 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNQ5vCPjpixuAwagxAQEjrwQAiMLGnvFrnAfulNReLaBcOIbn7MIsrQqZ 9Pg5wN0YMPWhvnN8KtR86eS9LwEpZwhc6NTZYVpj3nDQTcvvbSFPFtbVkPT+bNFT IV+KLQeV+hxVj4NKfSNucnkhAHaWM8BeFmmfAf/VUEVlHv+S+9JaqqX3/3lHUXv9 xCD6kA8WzQ8= =8MQv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message