From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 8 10:07:15 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA29399 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 10:07:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA29378 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 10:07:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrahlstr@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA18117; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:06:22 -0600 (CST) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma018048; Fri, 8 Jan 99 12:05:52 -0600 Received: (from nrahlstr@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) id MAA11701; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:05:58 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19990108120557.B10692@winternet.com> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:05:57 -0600 From: Nathan Ahlstrom To: John , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Creating Boot Disk References: <001701be3b39$3d57ee20$322ef8ce@john> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <001701be3b39$3d57ee20$322ef8ce@john>; from John on Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 01:01:02PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John wrote: > Hello, > I'm interested in trying FreeBSD on my system, but I've run into a problem > creating the boot disk. I keep getting errors telling the 1.44M disk I'm > using isn't large enough for the image file. I've tried following the > instructions at the web site - with no luck! I must be missing something in > the instructions. Can somebody help? > Thanks :) Where did you get the boot disk from? Which version of FreeBSD? Did you format the disk and the use rawrite or fdimage to write the boot.flp to the disk? -- Nathan Ahlstrom nrahlstr@winternet.com Run FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message