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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