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From: Tim Moony <timm@uniqsite.com>
To: "Goeringer, Michael" <goeringerm@keywest.ird.rl.af.mil>
cc: "'Valter Sorana'" <vsorana@leland.Stanford.EDU>,
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Subject: RE: boot.flp is too big
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On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Goeringer, Michael wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>     the boot.flp file was never meant to fit.  On the CD or site get 
> rawrite.exe or fdimage.exe and use this utility under DOS to create 
> your boot disk.  i.e. you would type   fdimage boot.flp a:
> 
> Have Fun!
> 
> Michael G.
> 
> ----------
> From:  Valter Sorana[SMTP:vsorana@leland.Stanford.EDU]
> Sent:  Tuesday, December 09, 1997 7:56 PM
> To:  freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject:  boot.flp is too big
> 
> Dear friends,
> 
> I tried to put the boot.flp file on my 1.44MB diskette, but it didn't
> work: it seems that boot.flp is about 1.7MB.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Valter Sorana.
> 
> 

That's correct.  The image is compressed to fit on a 1.44 Meg floppy disk.