From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 14 00:01:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA21735 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 00:01:12 -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 AAA21710 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 00:01:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA20036 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 23:55:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd020032; Thu May 14 06:55:29 1998 Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 23:55:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing from floppy (fwd) 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 I return this to questions... I've never done this from dos/windows.. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 13:53:04 +0800 From: Valerie Harris To: Julian Elischer Subject: Re: Installing from floppy Hi Julian, Yes, this is the file I downloaded, and the size is correct as per the emasurements you have given me. I still can't create the boot disk! Help! Valerie > > 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