Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 02:55:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Richard Lemieux" <re_lemieux@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble Message-ID: <14841.13552.430452.134216@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <96682354@toto.iv>
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Richard Lemieux writes: > I am about to try freebsd but got stuck before beginning. When I try to > fdimage kern and mfsroot I get the message file too big. My disks are fresh > formatted and indicate slightly larger than the file. Didn't think I would > have trouble so soon. Any help??? Did you by any chance copy the file images in text mode? Doing so will cause newline characters to be translated into carriage-return newlines, which not only corrupt executables, but expand the image files so they are slightly larger than they should be. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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