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Date:      Thu, 11 May 2000 10:41:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Rick Hamell <hamellr@aracnet.com>
To:        Jason Kocol <mrkocol@cv.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Floppy disk images
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005111040100.5659-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <200005111721.NAA24696@cv.org>

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>      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



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