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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 12:14:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Joseph K Shraibman <jks2557@is4.nyu.edu>
To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
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Subject: Re: boot.flp
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On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, John Fieber wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Nov 1997 jks2557@is4.nyu.edu wrote:
> 
> > I think there is something wrong with the boot.flp that's in the
> > /pub/FreeBSD/2.2.5-RELEASE/floppies directory.  Whenever I try to use
> > fdimage to make a boot disk it complains that the file is too large.
> 
> Did you make sure you downloaded it using a binary transfer
> instead of ascii?

Since ftp'ing directly was so slow, I first downloaded to my unix account
at nyu like so:
lynx -source ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/... > boot.flp

...and then downloaded it to my machine at home using binary.

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