Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 19:12:35 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Doug Lerner <doug@inJapan.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FAQ (was: boot.flp too big) Message-ID: <19990125191235.A14140@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19990125075237.ARENA-6201@mail.me-ru.com> References: <fc.3b9aca001c4896cd000f4b93000d526e.d5274@inJapan.net> <19990125075237.ARENA-6201@mail.me-ru.com>
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Doug Lerner wrote: > Thank you for your e-mail message. I didn't know about the FAQ. I was just > following along on the online installation instructions. It said "download > from here", so I right-clicked on it and chose "save as a named file" from > the pop-up menu. I don't know what else I could have done. Is there some > other way to download to make sure I am downloading a binary file? I did > the same thing when I downloaded fdimage.exe and it seemed to save it > correctly as an executable file. Use an FTP client to download files from FTP servers, not a web browser. You actually know what's going on then, god only knows what the web browser could be doing behind the scenes. I find FreeBSD's command line ftp client is pretty good, other operating systems should have something similar. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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