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Date:      Fri, 25 Apr 1997 21:17:36 -0700
From:      smatheso <smatheso@enternet.com.au>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   installation
Message-ID:  <336181E0.1C0C@enternet.com.au>

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When this command line is executed

	fdimage boot.flp a:

the following error message is received

	boot.flp - File is too big

I checked the directory and this is what i got

total 8669
-r--r--r--  1 wkt  staff      254 Mar 28 06:31 CHECKSUM.MD5
-r--r--r--  1 wkt  staff     1227 Apr  5 11:10 README.TXT
-r--r--r--  1 wkt  staff  1474560 Mar 25 13:21 boot-pao.flp
-r--r--r--  1 wkt  staff  1474560 Mar 24 20:59 boot.flp
-r--r--r--  1 wkt  staff  1474560 Mar 24 21:00 fixit.flp
drwxr-xr-x  2 wkt  staff      512 Apr 21 10:41 newer

as you can see the files are larger than the capacity of the disk.

Have i missed something?  i couldn't find anything in the install guide
about this.

Please help!

Stuart Matheson ( a computer user in desperate need of some unix after a
decade of windoze ).



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