Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 20:52:37 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: "jtkipp@students.wisc.edu" <jesse@foo.bar.com> Cc: "Van Den Bergh, Andreas" <Andreas.VanDenBergh@be.origin-it.com>, "'FreeBSD'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: installing boot.flp Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971105205131.5564E-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971104230724.220B-100000@foo.bar.com>
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On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, jtkipp@students.wisc.edu wrote: > On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Van Den Bergh, Andreas wrote: > > > Hi, > > I've downloaded boot.flp, ... but it's 1,479,138 bytes big, and this > > does not > > fit on a 1.44 MByte floppy. Used fdimage.exe but it gives me an error > > that > > there's not enough space on the floppy. > > What do I do wrong. > > ThanX > Are you using a new disk? the boot.flp (by nessecity) is almost _exactly_ > the size of a HD floppy, if you are using an old disk and it has _any_ bad > sectors you won't be able to use it, because the format will write around > them and you'll be short on disk space (this has happened to me > before...). If you are in dos also try "fdimage /?" and manually entering > the parameters, like > "fdimage -s 1.44M -f c:\freebsd\boot.flp -d a:" or something like that > (the "-*" are prolly wrong letters, but that is what it looks like...) Another possibility you might want to look at is whether you might have downloaded the boot.flp by ASCII mode transfer rather then BINARY mode; if you use ASCII mode, it won't work, and I think it makes the file bigger, too. > > Jesse kipp > Jtkipp@students.wisc.edu > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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