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Date:      Fri, 20 Jun 1997 09:07:02 +0200
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        Rod Ruggiero <lila@aloha.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 1.44 M
Message-ID:  <19970620090702.20657@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <33A982F9.35B6@aloha.net>; from Rod Ruggiero on Thu, Jun 19, 1997 at 09:05:29AM -1000
References:  <33A982F9.35B6@aloha.net>

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On Thu, Jun 19, 1997 at 09:05:29AM -1000, Rod Ruggiero wrote:
> Hi, tried to download the boot file to floppy to see if I can use
> freeBSD and to my surprise, it won't fit!  My 1.44 Meg floppies format
> to 1.38.  I have Windows 95 on an Acer Pentium.  I ahte to look stupid

Looks like you have bad media and not all sectors got formatted.
Did you make sure that you downloaded in binary mode (in case you were
using ftp)? Did you compare the MD5 checksums? 



> but...
> Thanks.
> Rod

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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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