From owner-freebsd-install Mon Dec 13 7:30:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-install@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 361AC1510E for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 07:30:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from williamsl@Home.Com) Received: from RELIABLE ([24.4.115.31]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19991213153002.VLWB17996.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@RELIABLE>; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 07:30:02 -0800 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:28:13 -0500 From: Ben WIlliams X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.34a) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: Ben WIlliams X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <12436.991213@Home.Com> To: Miled Tezeghdanti Cc: freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems to create boot & root floppies In-reply-To: <3854C9CE.25CD0AD8@irisa.fr> References: <3854C9CE.25CD0AD8@irisa.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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... -- 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. MT> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org MT> with "unsubscribe freebsd-install" in the body of the message -- Ben mailto:williamsl@Home.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-install" in the body of the message