From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 14 9:20:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ngo.org.uk (ngo.org.uk [193.62.43.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EF4F37B423 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:20:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mac@localhost) by ngo.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA11886; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:22:44 +0100 (BST) From: Mac Message-Id: <200009141622.RAA11886@ngo.org.uk> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Floppies In-Reply-To: from Rick Hamell at "Sep 13, 0 07:11:39 am" To: hamellr@heorot.1nova.com (Rick Hamell) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:22:44 +0100 (BST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick Hamell Wrote > > 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.. :) > Most likely the difference is because 'fdimage' formats the disk as it goes. 'dd' doesn't bother. Mac To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message