From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 10 21:50:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9976614F0A for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:50:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id AAA21206; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 00:51:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199906110451.AAA21206@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Installing Problem In-Reply-To: <37609399.F19F1F7@pitt.edu> from "Christopher A. Caputo" at "Jun 11, 99 00:42:01 am" To: cacst92+@pitt.edu (Christopher A. Caputo) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 00:51:26 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (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 Christopher A. Caputo wrote, > I'm trying to install FreeBSD on my computer. The boot image file is > 1474560 bytes but I can only format my 3.5" disks for 1457664 bytes. I > used format from Win 98 and MS-DOS 6.22. Could you tell me what I'm > doing wrong? You are trying to copy the image onto a formatted disk. See item (4) on, http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html and ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/3.2-RELEASE/floppies/README.TXT Good luck. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message