From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 13 13:30:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA08734 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:30:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA08692 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:30:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA29830; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:30:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:30:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: David Giese cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Disk In-Reply-To: <35D31AFE.D93E7A52@brownandbigelow.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, David Giese wrote: > I'm new to FreeBSD and am trying to install it on a PC to try it out. I > downloaded the 'boot.flp' and 'fdimage.exe' files to create a FreeBSD > bootable floppy. I have tried running fdimage with the syntax 'fdimage > -f 1.44M boot.flp a:' to create the bootable floppy, but I get the > message 'boot.flp - File is too big.' I am trying this from a DOS > window within Win95 and have tried booting the computer in Command > Prompt Mode. Any idea how to get this to work properly? This is a FAQ: redownload the boot floppy image in _binary_ mode. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message