Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:27:24 +0100 (CET) From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: "K.S.R.Dias" <kdias@ezrock.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: floppy Message-ID: <20011114232508.Q424-100000@howie.ncptiddische.net> In-Reply-To: <NBBBKIDEDHDPCKOPBNKMKENGDCAA.kdias@ezrock.com>
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On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, K.S.R.Dias wrote: > Hi there, > > I downloaded files from floppies directory for Freebsd 4.4,they > are in my hard drive now.But I cannot copy them to floppy disk as those > files are slightly higher than the capacity of 2HD floppy disk.My aim is to > install version 4.4 to a different computer using those floppies.I am a > newcomer to UNIX.Any suggestions to get those floppy files. You cannot simply copy the downloaded floppy images to a floppy disk. You need to write them in "raw" mode. If you are using Windows / DOS (I have the strange feeling that you do that right now), you need a special utility which is - as far as I know - also available where you downloaded the floppy images (I don't have any further information on how to use that utility, but I guess it's easy). Under FreeBSD or any other Unix, you'd do something like dd if=floppyimage of=/dev/fd0 to get your floppy image written to a floppy disk. Hope that helps as least a little bit. Greetings Nils Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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