From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 14 7:47:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DF3B37B423 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 07:47:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5947E3286; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 07:11:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4656C3285; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 07:11:39 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 07:11:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: David de la Rosa Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Floppies In-Reply-To: <000901c01e51$d25a6e60$4a532ea6@wcomnet.com> 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 Moved to -questions > I am having trouble creating the boot disks via FTP. The files kern.flp and > mfsroot.flp are 1.473Mbs large and don't fit into my 1.44Mbs formatted > floppies. When I try to fdimage I get an error message that states that the > file is too large. What am I doing wrong or what do I have to do? I am > really interested in installing my FreeBSD after all the research I have > done and noting that Yahoo runs all there servers on FreeBSD I want to start > learning and take advantage of all the benefits of FreeBSD. Please help. Redownload the floppies, this time make sure you done them as binary files. Then do fdimage from the c: prompt. That will image the .flp files on to the disks. :) Speaking of which... has anyone noticed that dd is a LOT faster then fdimage... ? At least when making boot disks.. :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message