Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 15:57:46 +0800 From: "Wong Tze Chuan (Central)" <TWONG@DIGI.COM.MY> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: nicks@albury.net.au, jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz, lplist@closedsrc.org Subject: RE: file too big! Message-ID: <938C4032A421D411BDDD00104B316522564502@CREXG1>
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First of all, I apologised for not reading ALL files before posting out the questions, then I would like to thank Nick Slager, Linh Pham, and Johnathan Chen for sending some replies back, and pointing me where to start with. I read the file ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT and thought 3.4 is the latest, and get confused when I found there are several versions available. (Is there developer vesion, stable version...???) I will start to do more reading now, and again thanks for the feed back!! > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Slager [SMTP:nicks@albury.net.au] > Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 1:14 PM > To: Wong Tze Chuan (Central) > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: file too big! > > Thus spake Wong Tze Chuan (Central) (TWONG@DIGI.COM.MY): > > > Hi, > > When i tried to fdimage the kern.flp to a:, it gives me the error > message > > file too big! > > I downloaded al the flp file from > > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/3.4-RELEASE/floppies/ > > > > and how come the boot.flp size is even 2.88K? how to do fdimage of that? > > I am new to FreeBSD, and you documentation is not clear, and not > straight to > > point as well. > > From the README.TXT in the same directory: > > For a normal CDROM or network installation, all you need to copy onto > actual floppies from this directory are the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp > images (for 1.44MB floppies). > > and further: > > If you're on an ALPHA machine which netboots its floppy images or > you have a 2.88MB or LS-120 floppy capable of taking a 2.88MB image > on an x86 machine, you may still wish to use the older (but now > twice as large) boot.flp image which we also provide. That contains > the contents of kern.flp and mfsroot.flp on a single floppy, > essentially, and can be used in all of the above scenarios as well > as a handy boot image for those mastering "El Torito" bootable CD > images. See the mkisofs(1) command for more information. > > > So the documentation is there; you just haven't read it :-) > > If you're installing FreeBSD, you should probably grab 4.1-RELEASE > instead of 3.4. > > Further instructions are in the installation section of the FreeBSD > Handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ > > > Nick. > > -- > From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): > "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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