Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:13:59 -0400 From: Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net> To: David de la Rosa <david.delarosa@wcom.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Floppies Message-ID: <20000914111359.A633@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <000901c01e51$d25a6e60$4a532ea6@wcomnet.com>; from david.delarosa@wcom.com on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 09:43:48AM -0400 References: <000901c01e51$d25a6e60$4a532ea6@wcomnet.com>
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On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 09:43:48AM -0400, David de la Rosa wrote: > I am having trouble creating the boot disks via FTP. The files kern.flp and > mfsroot.flp are 1.473Mbs large and don't fit into my 1.44Mbs formatted > floppies. When I try to fdimage I get an error message that states that the > file is too large. What am I doing wrong or what do I have to do? I am > really interested in installing my FreeBSD after all the research I have > done and noting that Yahoo runs all there servers on FreeBSD I want to start > learning and take advantage of all the benefits of FreeBSD. Please help. You need to FTP the floppies in binary mode, not ascii. Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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