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Date:      Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:41:10 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        asteffek <asteffek@nassau.cv.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HELP ME
Message-ID:  <19980326104110.45450@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <000901bd5832$ea48f1a0$e4e2020a@wildone.nassau.cv.net>; from asteffek on Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 04:13:47PM -0500
References:  <000901bd5832$ea48f1a0$e4e2020a@wildone.nassau.cv.net>

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On Wed, 25 March 1998 at 16:13:47 -0500, asteffek wrote:
> I followed the directions for using 'fdimage.exe' to make my boot floppy to install FreeBSD.
>
> The 'boot.flp' file is 1.47m under DOS and 'fdimage.exe' just keeps returning an error message "source file too big"
>
> Please help (or tell me a better way to install FreeBSD), I have TCP/IP to the net over a T1..

This looks like you downloaded the floppy in ASCII mode.  Check out
http://www.lemis.com/handbook/what-to-download.htm for details of what
to do and how to avoid other holes in your foot.

Greg

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