From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 6 01:49:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA04209 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 01:49:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gw-nl1.origin-it.com (gw-nl1.origin-it.com [193.79.128.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA04201 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 01:49:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Andreas.VanDenBergh@be.origin-it.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by gw-nl1.origin-it.com (8.6.10/8.6.10-0.994n-08Nov95) id KAA10778 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 10:49:00 +0100 Received: from mail.nl.origin-it.com(172.16.127.3) by gw-nl1.origin-it.com via smap (V1.3+ESMTP) with ESMTP id sma010691; Thu Nov 6 10:48:26 1997 Received: from bezax001.zavint.be.origin-it.com (bezax001.zavint.be.origin-it.com [172.16.214.6]) by mail.nl.origin-it.com (8.6.10/8.6.10-1.2.1a-961120) with SMTP id KAA20701 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 10:45:56 +0100 Received: by bezax001.zavint.be.origin-it.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.994.63) id <01BCEAA1.436AD3C0@bezax001.zavint.be.origin-it.com>; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 10:46:40 +0100 Message-ID: From: "Van Den Bergh, Andreas" To: "'jtkipp@students.wisc.edu'" , "'Matthew D. Fuller'" Cc: "'FreeBSD'" Subject: RE: installing boot.flp Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 10:46:39 +0100 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.994.63 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 | >*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > > >