From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 7:47:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.ne.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ne.home.com [24.2.4.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43BE37B6B6 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:47:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from cx443070b ([24.0.36.170]) by mail.rdc1.ne.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20001031154735.TYKN16034.mail.rdc1.ne.home.com@cx443070b>; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:47:35 -0800 Message-ID: <004401c04352$333c6830$aa240018@cx443070b> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: "Kamath" , References: Subject: Re: boot.flp too big Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:49:48 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message