From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 4 15:39:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BD7B37B730 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 15:39:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from bryden ([192.168.0.2]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA46520; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 08:38:57 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <004701c0bd58$13edd7e0$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "James Splaine" , References: Subject: Re: Boot Floppies Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 08:39:13 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've made hundreds of the things in Win9x / W2K C:\ fdimage kern.flp a: & C:\ fdimage mfsroot.flp a: Its possible I guess that someone in one of those asian countries that makes floppies has got greedy & produced substandard ones (yeah I know that all floppies are such), but I've yet to find any that don't accept the above. ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Splaine" To: Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 8:23 AM Subject: Boot Floppies > Hello > > > I'm having a major problem with my installation of FreeBSD 4.2. I cannot > make the boot floppies on any machine because kern.flp and mfsroot.flp are > both 1,474,560 bytes and wont fit on any standard 1,457,664 byte floppy > disks. I must be doing something wrong but cant figure out what it is. > Thanks for taking the time to help me out. > > Thanks, > > > Jay > > > 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