From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 24 16:26:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from icicle.winternet.com (icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9701714C11 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:26:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrahlstr@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14168; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:26:33 -0600 (CST) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma014142; Wed, 24 Feb 99 18:26:12 -0600 Received: (from nrahlstr@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) id SAA19097; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:26:45 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19990224182644.D18824@winternet.com> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:26:44 -0600 From: Nathan Ahlstrom To: Novagate Systems Admin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE boot floppy bloated References: <19624.919137680@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Novagate Systems Admin on Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 05:37:40AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Novagate Systems Admin wrote: > Hello, > > Any ideas why the boot floppy is so big? From: > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/3.1-RELEASE/floppies/ > > boot.flp 2880 Kb Tue Feb 16 03:21:00 1999 > > It's twice the normal size. Strange. Thanks. Yep it would no longer fit onto just one floppy, so it was made to fit on 2.88 Meg floppy drives and LS-120 drives. For those of us with standard 1.44 Meg floppies use the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp. See the README.TXT in that same directory. Nathan -- Nathan Ahlstrom nrahlstr@winternet.com http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message