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To: Yi Ke <kyi@gintic.gov.sg>
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Subject: Re: Help needed for FreeBSD installation
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Yi Ke wrote:
>
> Dear Sir/Mdm
>
> I am trying to follow the instruction to install FreeBSD on my PC, but
> problem is after downloading "installation boot disk image" and
> "fdimage.exe onto my local harddisk, at DOS prompt, fdimage gives me a
> message, saying that boot.flp is too big. Tha actual size of boot.flp is
> 1479365 bytes, but 1.44M flopy disk's capacity is only 1474560 bytes. Could
> you please tell me what's wrong?
>
Did you d/l the image file in binary mode??. If not, then try doing
so.
> Thanks &Regards
> YK
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