From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 2 22:09:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA29183 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 22:09:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.airmail.net (mail.airmail.net [206.66.12.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA29177 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 22:09:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from fw2-2.ppp.iadfw.net from [206.66.15.67] by mail.airmail.net (/\##/\ Smail3.1.30.16 #30.136) with smtp id ; Thu, 3 Apr 97 00:09:49 -0600 (CST) From: lljones@kickinit.com (Lance ) To: kuma Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bootimage Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 06:14:44 GMT Organization: The Gathering Reply-To: lljones@kickinit.com Message-ID: <33444ac7.20869515@mail.airmail.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by freefall.freebsd.org id WAA29179 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2 Apr 1997 22:01:31 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Doug White wrote: > >> On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, kuma wrote: >> >> > > Make sure you are trying to write to a 1.44MB 3.5 inch floppy disk that is >> > > DOS formatted. >> >> > I did have a new floppy disk formatted with dos, but fdimage did not even >> > check the disk, it just tells me the file is too large. >> >> I should probably ask the obvious: what is the filesize of the image? >> Did you download it in binary mode? >> >> Doug White | University of Oregon >> Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant >> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major >> >Right, i forgot to mention, the file(boot.flp) i downloaded is a bit more >than 1.44, it's 1.478Mb. I was wondering how could that fit into a >single 1.44 floppy. I used netscape to do "Save Link As" and saved the >file. > >thanks for your patience. > > I had this same error because I did a regular or quick format in dos, after I did [format a: /u] the boot.flp image fit just fine. I hope this helps. -=Only the paranoid survive=- Lance L. Jones lljones@kickinit.com