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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: QHunt29936@aol.com
Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: can't copy boot.flp to a floppy of 1.44MB
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On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 09:57:46PM -0500, QHunt29936@aol.com wrote:
> A floppy disk of 1.44MB has the space 1,474,560 bytes; but the boot.flp I
> download
> from FreeBSD is of 1,546,706 bytes (>1.44MB). when I "copy boot.flp a:\*.*
> /v", I was told "insufficiant space". How can I do the boot disk?

Please send messages of this nature to FreeBSD-questions, not
FreeBSD-doc, which is dedicated to documenting the FreeBSD system.

The floppy image is exactly 1474560 bytes long.  I don't know how you
got 1,546,706 bytes.  Some people will tell you it's because you used
ASCII mode transfer (which is likely), but that doesn't explain the
size: an ASCII transfer of the 2.2.5 boot floppy produces 1479138
bytes.

Try again, and make sure you use a binary (not ASCII) transfer.

Greg