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Date:      Fri, 13 Jun 2003 23:39:20 +0200
From:      "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk>
To:        P C Wang <pcwang@abbnm.com>
Cc:        freebsd-config@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Newbie install
Message-ID:  <20030613213919.GA398@nitro.dk>
In-Reply-To: <386E475C.7060401@abbnm.com>
References:  <386E475C.7060401@abbnm.com>

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On 2000.01.01 12:28:44 -0600, P C Wang wrote:

> I looked the web instruction for instruction to install the OS
>=20
> I formatted a floppy disk with size /A:1.44 and try to copy kern.flp=20
> onto the floppy. Since the floppy has only 1.38MB of free space (even=20
> though I formatted with size for 1.44MB) I can not really copy the file=
=20
> over to the floppy.

You should not copy the files, but they need to be written directly to
the floppy disk.  Please see the FreeBSD handbook for information on
doing this.  The relevant section is :

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-pre.html#INSTALL-FLOPP=
IES

BTW the FreeBSD-questions list is more appropriate for this kind of
problems.

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Simon L. Nielsen

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