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Date:      Thu, 03 Apr 1997 06:14:44 GMT
From:      lljones@kickinit.com (Lance )
To:        kuma <kuma@mathlab.sunysb.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bootimage
Message-ID:  <33444ac7.20869515@mail.airmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970402215902.4721B-100000@mathlab.sunysb.edu>
References:  <Pine.SUN.3.96.970402215902.4721B-100000@mathlab.sunysb.edu>

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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 



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