From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 11 10:40:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.aracnet.com (mail3.aracnet.com [216.99.193.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9107D37BBBC for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 10:40:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail3.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA22340; Thu, 11 May 2000 10:40:13 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id KAA06097; Thu, 11 May 2000 10:41:08 -0700 Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 10:41:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Jason Kocol Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy disk images In-Reply-To: <200005111721.NAA24696@cv.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have a question about creating the installation floppy disks for FreeBSD. The problem is > that both boot.flp and mfsroot.flp are too large to fit on a 1.44MB floppy disk, being that each > file is ~1.47MB. Trying to use fdimage.exe to image either one onto a disk produces an error > message, indicating that the file is too big. Is there a workaround for this? Please advise. Make sure the disks are freshly formatted with no bad sectors, no boot sectors, etc. Then use fdimage.exe Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message