Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:46:07 -0400 From: "Troy Settle" <rewt@i-Plus.net> To: <bricketts@sia.net.au>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help Message-ID: <199706021445.KAA23699@radford.i-plus.net>
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From: Ben Ricketts <bricketts@sia.net.au> >I have tried to copy the boot.flp image to a 1.44 floppy, unfortunateky >it seems that the image file is larger than the capacity of my floppy. >Is there any way to make the image file smaller? > >Help much appreciated Ben, Since you appear to be new to UNIX in general, and FreeBSD in specific, a bit of helpful advice seems to be in order... When you come accross a file called README.TXT, it's usually advisable to read that file before posting a question to a mailing list, newsgroup, irc, or whatever. If you had done this, you would probably be done installing FreeBSD by now, instead of waiting for an answer. As long as you are using FreeBSD or any unix variant, you'll find that this advice will come in handy more times than you'll be able to count. -- Troy Settle <st@i-Plus.net> Network Administrator, iPlus Internet Services http://www.i-Plus.net >From the file README.TXT in the floppies directory (where you got the boot.flp file) [ The newer/ subdirectory also contains more up-to-date images with fixes ] [ The I18N-flp/ subdirectory contains floppies with national language support (for laptops (bootpao) and standard (boot) computers) ] For a normal CDROM or network installation, all you need to copy onto an actual floppy from this directory is the boot.flp image (for 1.44MB floppies). NOTE: These images are NOT DOS files! You cannot simply copy them to a DOS floppy as regular files, you need to *image* copy them to the floppy with fdimage.exe under DOS or `dd' under UNIX. For example: To create the boot floppy image from DOS, you'd do something like this: C> fdimage boot.flp a: Assuming that you'd copied fdimage.exe and boot.flp into a directory somewhere. If you were doing this from the base of a CD distribution, then the *exact* command would be: E> tools\fdimage floppies\boot.flp a: Assuming that you'd copied fdimage.exe and boot.flp into a directory somewhere. If you were doing this from the base of a CD distribution, then the *exact* command would be: E> tools\fdimage floppies\boot.flp a: If you're creating the boot floppy from a UNIX machine, you may find that: dd if=floppies/boot.flp of=/dev/rfd0 or dd if=floppies/boot.flp of=/dev/floppy work well, depending on your hardware and operating system environment (different versions of UNIX have totally different names for the floppy drive - neat, huh? :-). -- Troy Settle <st@i-Plus.net> Network Administrator, iPlus Internet Services http://www.i-Plus.net
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