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From: The Devil Himself <fullermd@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
cc: kuma <kuma@mathlab.sunysb.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bootimage
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On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Doug White wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, kuma wrote:
> 
> > > I should probably ask the obvious:  what is the filesize of the image?
> > > Did you download it in binary mode?
> > > 
> > Right, i forgot to mention, the file(boot.flp) i downloaded is a bit more
> > than 1.44, it's 1.478Mb.  I was wondering how could that fit into a
> > single 1.44 floppy.  I used netscape to do "Save Link As" and saved the
> > file.
> 
> That may have corrupted the image.  Try using FTP directly and make sure
> it's set to binary mode.
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major

When I downloaded the files for 2.1.6, I used netscape and 'Save Link As'
for all the files, and I had no problems at all.
Well, at least not with the file...

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