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Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 16:57:08 -0500
From: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net>
To: Rob Hunter <hunterr@iafrica.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 2.2.8-RELEASE problem
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On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 11:39:41PM +0200, Rob Hunter wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm trying:
> 
> fdimage boot.flp a:
> 
> but the file is too big. I've gone and read the various README.TXT's but
> they say nothing of an abnormally sized file:
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 2035  207  1474560 Nov 30 13:47 boot.flp
> 
> any ideas?

This question comes up on the list every twenty minutes or so. The answer is
probably that you downloaded the image file in ASCII mode, rather than in
binary.

Chris

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