From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 25 12:35:36 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07204 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 12:35:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07199 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 12:35:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.10 #1) id 104rR5-0003gM-00; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 19:12:36 +0000 Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 19:12:35 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Doug Lerner Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FAQ (was: boot.flp too big) Message-ID: <19990125191235.A14140@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <19990125075237.ARENA-6201@mail.me-ru.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990125075237.ARENA-6201@mail.me-ru.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Lerner wrote: > Thank you for your e-mail message. I didn't know about the FAQ. I was just > following along on the online installation instructions. It said "download > from here", so I right-clicked on it and chose "save as a named file" from > the pop-up menu. I don't know what else I could have done. Is there some > other way to download to make sure I am downloading a binary file? I did > the same thing when I downloaded fdimage.exe and it seemed to save it > correctly as an executable file. Use an FTP client to download files from FTP servers, not a web browser. You actually know what's going on then, god only knows what the web browser could be doing behind the scenes. I find FreeBSD's command line ftp client is pretty good, other operating systems should have something similar. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message