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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 12:55:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Kell Delaney <kd002c@uhura.cc.rochester.edu>
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Subject: Re: Boot disk
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On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Kell Delaney wrote:

> I tried to make a boot disk and it tells me that the file is too big to
> fit. I am sorta new at all this but what am I supposed to do to get around
> that?

Redownload the disk image, and make sure you use binary mode (ie don't use
Netscrape).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major