Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:26:44 -0600 From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com> To: Novagate Systems Admin <gatekeeper@novagate.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE boot floppy bloated Message-ID: <19990224182644.D18824@winternet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.10.9902240534510.14748-100000@sulaco.novagate.net>; from Novagate Systems Admin on Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 05:37:40AM -0500 References: <19624.919137680@zippy.cdrom.com> <Pine.BSI.4.10.9902240534510.14748-100000@sulaco.novagate.net>
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Novagate Systems Admin <gatekeeper@novagate.com> 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
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