Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 15:13:56 +1000 From: Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au> To: "Wong Tze Chuan (Central)" <TWONG@DIGI.COM.MY> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file too big! Message-ID: <20000815151356.B86971@albury.net.au> In-Reply-To: <938C4032A421D411BDDD00104B3165225644F5@CREXG1>; from TWONG@DIGI.COM.MY on Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 12:36:24PM %2B0800 References: <938C4032A421D411BDDD00104B3165225644F5@CREXG1>
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Thus spake Wong Tze Chuan (Central) (TWONG@DIGI.COM.MY): > Hi, > When i tried to fdimage the kern.flp to a:, it gives me the error message > file too big! > I downloaded al the flp file from > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/3.4-RELEASE/floppies/ > > and how come the boot.flp size is even 2.88K? how to do fdimage of that? > I am new to FreeBSD, and you documentation is not clear, and not straight to > point as well. From the README.TXT in the same directory: For a normal CDROM or network installation, all you need to copy onto actual floppies from this directory are the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp images (for 1.44MB floppies). and further: If you're on an ALPHA machine which netboots its floppy images or you have a 2.88MB or LS-120 floppy capable of taking a 2.88MB image on an x86 machine, you may still wish to use the older (but now twice as large) boot.flp image which we also provide. That contains the contents of kern.flp and mfsroot.flp on a single floppy, essentially, and can be used in all of the above scenarios as well as a handy boot image for those mastering "El Torito" bootable CD images. See the mkisofs(1) command for more information. So the documentation is there; you just haven't read it :-) If you're installing FreeBSD, you should probably grab 4.1-RELEASE instead of 3.4. Further instructions are in the installation section of the FreeBSD Handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ Nick. -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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