Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 10:46:39 +0100 From: "Van Den Bergh, Andreas" <Andreas.VanDenBergh@be.origin-it.com> To: "'jtkipp@students.wisc.edu'" <jesse@foo.bar.com>, "'Matthew D. Fuller'" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: "'FreeBSD'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: installing boot.flp Message-ID: <c=US%a=_%p=Origin-it%l=BEZAX001-971106094639Z-5074@bezax001.zavint.be.origin-it.com>
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Hiya, Thanx for the reply. Tried every one of those (new floppy, fdimage options,...) I have no problems with other binary files (.exe, .zip, ...). Still the file size of boot.flp is to big. HELP! >---------- >From: Matthew D. Fuller[SMTP:fullermd@futuresouth.com] >Sent: 06 November 1997 03:52 >To: jtkipp@students.wisc.edu >Cc: Van Den Bergh, Andreas; 'FreeBSD' >Subject: Re: installing boot.flp > >On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, jtkipp@students.wisc.edu wrote: > >> On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Van Den Bergh, Andreas wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > I've downloaded boot.flp, ... but it's 1,479,138 bytes big, and this >> > does not >> > fit on a 1.44 MByte floppy. Used fdimage.exe but it gives me an error >> > that >> > there's not enough space on the floppy. >> > What do I do wrong. >> > ThanX >> Are you using a new disk? the boot.flp (by nessecity) is almost _exactly_ >> the size of a HD floppy, if you are using an old disk and it has _any_ bad >> sectors you won't be able to use it, because the format will write around >> them and you'll be short on disk space (this has happened to me >> before...). If you are in dos also try "fdimage /?" and manually entering >> the parameters, like >> "fdimage -s 1.44M -f c:\freebsd\boot.flp -d a:" or something like that >> (the "-*" are prolly wrong letters, but that is what it looks like...) >Another possibility you might want to look at is whether you might have >downloaded the boot.flp by ASCII mode transfer rather then BINARY mode; if >you use ASCII mode, it won't work, and I think it makes the file bigger, >too. > >> >> Jesse kipp >> Jtkipp@students.wisc.edu >> > >*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* >| FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | >* "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * >| that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| >* fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * >| http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | >*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > > >
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