From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 13 19:52:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA16538 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 19:52:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA16443 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 19:51:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA15247; Wed, 13 May 1998 19:50:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd015244; Thu May 14 02:50:21 1998 Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 19:50:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Valerie Harris cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing from floppy In-Reply-To: <355A4779.103B@ncs.com.sg> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG did you ftp the file in binary mode? if not it will have been corrupted and wil have grown by some amount. if the size of the file is > 80 x 18 x 2 x 512 then this is what happenned. julian On Thu, 14 May 1998, Valerie Harris wrote: > Hi there, > > I am trying to install FreeBSd from floppy, bit have encountered some > problems. When I try to do an fdimage boot.flp a:, I get the error > message that the boot.flp file is too big! Is there any way I can get > round this? > > Thanks for your help! > > Valerie Harris > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message