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Date:      Wed, 4 Apr 2001 19:30:40 -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.02.0104041928200.20005-100000@linux1.gl.umbc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBIBCJELPJJAJMPBNFKEHICCAA.jsplaine@mediaone.net>

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you must have fdimage, kern, and mfsroot in the same directory...then just
get to a dos prompt CD to that directory and then run fdimage like i
stated in the previous email.

let me know how it goes

Jason

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, James Splaine wrote:

> ok great.  I found the fdimage.exe file.  Where do i put it if I want dos to
> be able to use it?  command.com?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: G. Jason Middleton [mailto:gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 7:06 PM
> To: James Splaine
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: Boot Floppies
>
>
> 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
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> > >
> >
> > G. Jason Middleton
> >
> >
> >
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>
> G. Jason Middleton
>
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>

G. Jason Middleton


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