Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 19:06:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "G. Jason Middleton" <gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu> To: James Splaine <jsplaine@mediaone.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Boot Floppies Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31L.02.0104041902270.20005-100000@linux1.gl.umbc.edu> In-Reply-To: <NEBBIBCJELPJJAJMPBNFMEHHCCAA.jsplaine@mediaone.net>
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no you have the right images it looks like...you will not be able to copy then by just using the copy command in DOS. It seems as though you do not have the fdimage.exe. this file can be found on the at ftp.freebsd.org. the fdimage.exe file should be in the same location as the images files. or just do a search at www.freebsd.org for "fdimage.exe" and you are bound to find it let me know if everytihng works out Jason On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, James Splaine wrote: > Dos doesnt recongnize fdimage as a command, I did just use copy and get an > insufficient drive space error. I've tried on tons of different floppies. > I'm trying to make the floppies from my win98 machine. Each of the files > are 16896 bytes to big for any floppies that I have. Here are the files I > have. I must have the wrong files or something. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: G. Jason Middleton [mailto:gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 6:31 PM > To: James Splaine > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Boot Floppies > > > they should both fit on regular floppies....are you using fdimage to make > the floppies? > > it should go something like this > at a dos prompt > and of course you should be in the same directory that the images are > located and have a copy of fdimage in that directory as well > > > fdimage kern.flp a: > > let me know if this helps > > Jason > > > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, James Splaine wrote: > > > 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 > > > > G. Jason Middleton > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > ___ > > > > > > > Announcement: > > The revolution will not be televised. > > > G. Jason Middleton _______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement: The revolution will not be televised. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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