Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 22:01:31 -0500 (EST) From: kuma <kuma@mathlab.sunysb.edu> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bootimage Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970402215902.4721B-100000@mathlab.sunysb.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970402164020.2087B-100000@localhost>
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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.
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