From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 12:39:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29C2037B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nelly.internal.irrelevant.org (81-86-164-179.dsl.pipex.com [81.86.164.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EA1D43E91 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:39:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simond@irrelevant.org) Received: from simond by nelly.internal.irrelevant.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17Uudg-0001ma-00; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 20:39:08 +0100 Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 20:39:08 +0100 From: Simon Dick To: Richard Durham Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Release 4.5 and 4.6 - Boot.flp 2.8 mb? Message-ID: <20020717193908.GA6525@irrelevant.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 07:26:27PM +0000, Richard Durham wrote: > > I have checked both releases 4.5 and 4.6, the boot.flp file is 2.8mb?? How > can that be transferred to a single floppy? > I've searched everywhere and found no answers. > When trying to copy to a floppy Rawrite just registers an error - bad > sector: 1 > > Should the file be split and if so how? The 2.88mb floppy image is usually used to boot the cdrom, or for people with 2.88mb floppy drives. If you have the more common 1.44mb one then you need to write kern.flp and mfsroot.flp to seperate floppies. -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message