Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 19:32:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Terry Griffith <terryg@mci.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot.flp floppy Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970910193105.15258L-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3415E0BB.3E8F@mci.net>
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On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Terry Griffith wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2-2-2 and can't make a boot floppy. I > execute fdimage and get error "file too big". Indeed it is 1.48M. I > had supposed that that the unformatted capacity being greater, and this > not being a FAT OS, that fdimage could squeeze the boot.flp file onto a > 1.44M floppy. Is that the case? If so I have an entire box of floppies > with bad sectors, which I hope is unlikely. You probably downloaded the boot.flp image with Netscape, which mistakenly downloaded it in ASCII mode. When you go to download the file, right-click on the link and select "Save As" or use FTP in Binary mode. Common problem :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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