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Date:      Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:13:59 -0400
From:      Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net>
To:        David de la Rosa <david.delarosa@wcom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Floppies
Message-ID:  <20000914111359.A633@earthlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <000901c01e51$d25a6e60$4a532ea6@wcomnet.com>; from david.delarosa@wcom.com on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 09:43:48AM -0400
References:  <000901c01e51$d25a6e60$4a532ea6@wcomnet.com>

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On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 09:43:48AM -0400, David de la Rosa wrote:
> I am having trouble creating the boot disks via FTP.  The files kern.flp and
> mfsroot.flp are 1.473Mbs large and don't fit into my 1.44Mbs formatted
> floppies.  When I try to fdimage I get an error message that states that the
> file is too large.  What am I doing wrong or what do I have to do?  I am
> really interested in installing my FreeBSD after all the research I have
> done and noting that Yahoo runs all there servers on FreeBSD I want to start
> learning and take advantage of all the benefits of FreeBSD.  Please help.

 You need to FTP the floppies in binary mode, not ascii.

Eric


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