Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:44:07 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Jackson <d055633c@dc.seflin.org> To: asteffek <asteffek@nassau.cv.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP ME Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9803261045.L11174-b200000@dc.seflin.org.> In-Reply-To: <000901bd5832$ea48f1a0$e4e2020a@wildone.nassau.cv.net>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01BD5808.FDD1A700 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=iso-8859-1 Try rawrite.exe to copy to a floppy. Also make sure you are in DOS. not just a dos box, or having quit windows to dos. use ados 6.2 floppy to boot to dos. format the floppy, and ensure there are NO bad sectors. then try fdimage again. the file size doesn't really matter, cause your not "copying" the file onto the disk. you are writing an image of the boot.flp file to the disk. rawrite worked for me when I had the same problem. Robert Jackson d055633c@dc.seflin.org On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, asteffek wrote: > I followed the directions for using 'fdimage.exe' to make my boot floppy to install FreeBSD. > > The 'boot.flp' file is 1.47m under DOS and 'fdimage.exe' just keeps returning an error message "source file too big" > > Please help (or tell me a better way to install FreeBSD), I have TCP/IP to the net over a T1.. > > Sincerely, > Andrew Steffek > Programmer > ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01BD5808.FDD1A700 Content-Type: TEXT/HTML; CHARSET=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Content-ID: <Pine.3.89.9803261045.M11174@dc.seflin.org.> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.72.3007.2"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>I followed the directions for using=20 'fdimage.exe' to make my boot floppy to install FreeBSD.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>The 'boot.flp' file is 1.47m under = DOS and=20 'fdimage.exe' just keeps returning an error message "source file = too=20 big"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Please help (or tell me a better way = to install=20 FreeBSD), I have TCP/IP to the net over a T1..</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Sincerely,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Andrew Steffek</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 = size=3D2>Programmer</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01BD5808.FDD1A700-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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