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Date:      Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:49:48 -0800
From:      "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com>
To:        "Kamath" <kamath@cs.odu.edu>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: boot.flp too big
Message-ID:  <004401c04352$333c6830$aa240018@cx443070b>
References:  <Pine.SOL.4.10.10010301718120.26215-100000@ren.cs.odu.edu>

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> Hello--
>
> Boot.flp is too big to fit into a 1.44 Mb floppy! despite what the FAQ
> says. I get only around 1457664 bytes of free space after formatting a
> 1.44 MB floppy diskette on WindowsNT! What do I do to get around this
> problem? Create 2 diskettes? if so how do I do it, the fdimage program
> doesn't give any explicit options for usage.
>
> And for doing an FTP install of (freeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE on i386) do I
> really need boot.flp?? or is kern.flp and mfsroot.flp enough?

heh.  there's two options.  if you have a 2.88 meg floppy drive, boot.flp is
for you.  If you don't, it's kern.flp, then mfsroot.flp when prompted.




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