Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 19:50:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Valerie Harris <vharris@ncs.com.sg> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing from floppy Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980513194850.10860D-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <355A4779.103B@ncs.com.sg>
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did you ftp the file in binary mode? if not it will have been corrupted and wil have grown by some amount. if the size of the file is > 80 x 18 x 2 x 512 then this is what happenned. julian On Thu, 14 May 1998, Valerie Harris wrote: > Hi there, > > I am trying to install FreeBSd from floppy, bit have encountered some > problems. When I try to do an fdimage boot.flp a:, I get the error > message that the boot.flp file is too big! Is there any way I can get > round this? > > Thanks for your help! > > Valerie Harris > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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