From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 3 20: 5:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net (emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FDFC37B67D for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 20:05:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bduk@earthlink.net) Received: from earthlink.net (sdn-ar-006orportP218.dialsprint.net [63.178.66.234]) by emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA16829; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 20:04:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bduk@localhost) by earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA01831; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 18:26:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bduk) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 18:26:04 -0700 (PDT) Posted-Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 18:26:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200004040126.SAA01831@earthlink.net> From: Derrick Baumer To: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Cc: mweichert@bmts.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <14569.8725.833255.828831@hip186.ch.intel.com> (message from John Reynolds~ on Mon, 3 Apr 2000 15:58:29 -0700 (MST)) Subject: Re: Floppies... Reply-To: bduk@earthlink.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: John Reynolds~ > > [ copying to -questions as this was originally sent to -doc ] > > [ On Monday, April 3, Michael Weichert wrote: ] > > Hey there. I am having trouble putting the boot files on floppies, as > > they are 1.44MB of size and the actual size of a floppy is 1.38MB. > > > > Please email me if you can help me. > > Thanks. > > Mike Weichert > > > > last time I checked, my floppies were 1.44Mb. I just did: > > dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rfd0 > > and it went off without a hitch. Are you getting specific errors when trying > to make floppies that you can share? If so, then we can probably help out. > > Please tell us how you were trying to make the boot floppies. I seem to recall Windows 95 thinking 1.44 meg floppies were 1.38 megs. You need to use the disk-writing utility specifically for writing those images to disks. (and, like an idiot, I don't know what that utiltity is called, but you can get it at the same place you got the images from). Re-read the file INSTALL.TXT. -- Derrick Baumer - Black Duck Software To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message