Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 04:39:36 -0800 (PST) From: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: questions-digest V4 #119 Message-ID: <XFMail.980317043936.dburr@POBoxes.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- My secret spy satellite informs me that on 17-Mar-98, questions-digest wrote: > Hi, I am trying to create a boot disk and running into a minor > problem: When I download the installation image file onto my hard > drive, it's 1.47 megs and won't fit on a 1.44 meg disk. What's up? > Your instructions say this file should fit on a 1.44 meg disk. I'm > using Win 95 to download - is this the problem and how do I work > around it? If you had REALLY read the instructions, you surely would have seen that these are disk *IMAGES*, *NOT* files. You *CAN'T* just use "copy" to copy them onto a floppy. You need a disk image writing program, such as RaWrite (should be available on the same ftp site as FreeBSD, under the "tools" (I think) subdirectory. - --- Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> - Ask me for my PGP key | PGP: Your WWW HomePage: http://DonaldBurr.base.org/ ICQ #1347455 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNQ5vCPjpixuAwagxAQEjrwQAiMLGnvFrnAfulNReLaBcOIbn7MIsrQqZ 9Pg5wN0YMPWhvnN8KtR86eS9LwEpZwhc6NTZYVpj3nDQTcvvbSFPFtbVkPT+bNFT IV+KLQeV+hxVj4NKfSNucnkhAHaWM8BeFmmfAf/VUEVlHv+S+9JaqqX3/3lHUXv9 xCD6kA8WzQ8= =8MQv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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