From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 2 00:59:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA26652 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 00:59:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chopin.seattleu.edu (chopin.seattleu.edu [206.81.198.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA26647 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 00:59:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hodeleri@seattleu.edu) Received: from seattleu.edu ([172.17.25.95]) by chopin.seattleu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA14172; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 00:58:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <366500F3.BFF25924@seattleu.edu> Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 00:57:23 -0800 From: Eric Hodel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yi Ke CC: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG.'" Subject: Re: Help needed for FreeBSD installation References: <01570E7F8223D2119C9A00805F9A267C098928@gexchange.gintic.gov.sg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You need to download fdimage and use it to create the boot disk. boot.flp is a disk image, not a "file" that can be copied to a disk. This information was contained in the README.TXT in the /floppies directory. Please read these README files in the future. They are -*VERY*- important. Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu 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? > > Thanks &Regards > YK > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message