From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 11 7:38:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beowulf.utmb.edu (beowulf.utmb.edu [129.109.59.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CF9A14DE8 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 07:38:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu) Received: (from bdodson@localhost) by beowulf.utmb.edu (8.9.3/8.9.2) id JAA71544; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:34:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bdodson) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:34:23 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199906111434.JAA71544@beowulf.utmb.edu> From: "M. L. Dodson" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Christopher A. Caputo" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installing Problem In-Reply-To: <37609399.F19F1F7@pitt.edu> References: <37609399.F19F1F7@pitt.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christopher A. Caputo writes: > 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? > The boot image files are NOT just copied to floppies using DOS or Windows (of any flavor). They are IMAGE files. Follow the instructions at www.freebsd.org to get them onto floppies for installation. > -- > Christopher A. Caputo > cacst92@pitt.edu > > > > -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message