Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 23:55:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing from floppy (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980513235452.11116B-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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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 <vharris@ncs.com.sg> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> 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
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