From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 11 06:55:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA20363 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 06:55:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from serv.unibest.ru (serv.unibest.ru [194.87.33.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA20330 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 06:55:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hole.etrust.ru!unibest.ru!osa) Received: (qmail 1073 invoked from network); 11 Mar 1998 14:54:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hole.etrust.ru) (200.1.6.2) by serv.unibest.ru with SMTP; 11 Mar 1998 14:54:56 -0000 Received: from localhost by hole.etrust.ru with SMTP id RAA21551; (8.8.8/vak/1.9) Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:56:28 +0300 (MSK) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:56:28 +0300 (MSK) From: Ozz!!! X-Sender: osa@hole.etrust.ru To: Kai Richardson cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: HELP!! In-Reply-To: <2AA8880B268CD1118E4600609720EB180D36A3@mail.dsams.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Kai Richardson wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to install freebsd on my machine, but for some reason I > am getting stuck on the very first step, creating an install floppy! I > ftp'd both the boot.flp file and the fdimage.exe files to my NT workstation > harddrive. I put brand new floppy disk in drive a: However, when I run the > fdimage.exe file it says that the boot.flp file is too big to fit on the > floppy! I checked it's size, and indeed it is 1479138 bytes and a brand new > floppy is only 1457664 bytes! What am I doing wrong? > > Your help would be greatly appreciated! > > Kai Richardson > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Hi! Yes! You right! boot.flp's size is 1474560 !! But this is binary image of floppy-disk. I think you must use fdimage.exe in DOS... Rgdz, Ozz, osa@unibest.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message