Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:28:13 -0500 From: Ben WIlliams <williamsl@Home.Com> To: Miled Tezeghdanti <Miled.Tezeghdanti@irisa.fr> Cc: freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems to create boot & root floppies Message-ID: <12436.991213@Home.Com> In-Reply-To: <3854C9CE.25CD0AD8@irisa.fr> References: <3854C9CE.25CD0AD8@irisa.fr>
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Monday, December 13, 1999
Did you format these floppies first and verify they don't contain
any bad sectors? Also how did you download the *.flp images? If you
used Netscape that could also be your problem as I seem to recall
hearing about Netscape not handling binary downloads correctly in some
cases...
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Ben.
Monday, December 13, 1999, 5:26:22 AM, you wrote:
MT> Hello,
MT> I have problems to create boot and root floppies using windows.
MT> When I use the fdimage utility I obtain the following message :
MT> command : fdimage kern.flp a:
MT> result : kern.flp - File is too big
MT> It's the same case for mfsroot.flp.
MT> I had used rawrite to produce the 2 floppies, but when I boot with the
MT> one having the kern, the computer will be blocked and it doesn't ask me
MT> for the other floppy.
MT> I use 1.44M Floppy.
MT> Thank you for helping me.
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