From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Sep 14 8:14: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7F2D37B424 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:14:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rod.darktech.org (ip86.cambridge2.ma.pub-ip.psi.net [38.32.112.86]) by penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA05725; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:14:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eogren@localhost) by rod.darktech.org (8.10.1/8.9.3) id e8EFDxU00706; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:13:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from eogren) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:13:59 -0400 From: Eric Ogren To: David de la Rosa Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Floppies Message-ID: <20000914111359.A633@earthlink.net> References: <000901c01e51$d25a6e60$4a532ea6@wcomnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <000901c01e51$d25a6e60$4a532ea6@wcomnet.com>; from david.delarosa@wcom.com on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 09:43:48AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message