From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 6 18:30:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA22002 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 18:30:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt050n33.san.rr.com [204.210.31.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA21961 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 18:30:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA04318; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 18:30:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Message-ID: <35298199.BD102C5F@san.rr.com> Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 18:30:01 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0325 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Krekel CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: size of boot.flp file References: <35287005.42214D16@ecst.csuchico.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Krekel wrote: > > I'm going to attempt to install FreeBSD on my system off of a boot > disk. I have downloaded the file boot.flp. I cannot copy the file over > to a 3.5" disk because the size of the file is too large. Am I doing > something wrong here? Or should I stop being cheap and just spend the > money to get the CD-rom? : ) Please read ALL of the *.TXT documents at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.6-RELEASE and then come back and ask us if you have more questions. :) Here's a hint, you don't copy the floppy image. Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message