From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 14 14:27:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (pns.wobline.de [212.68.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E63D637B417 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:27:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from colt.ncptiddische.net (ppp-287.wobline.de [212.68.71.8]) by mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/tw-20010821) with ESMTP id fAEMQr504828; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:26:53 +0100 Received: from howie.ncptiddische.net (howie.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.3]) by colt.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAEMRQV24983; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:27:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Received: from howie.ncptiddische.net (howie.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.3]) by howie.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAEMROc00436; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:27:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:27:24 +0100 (CET) From: Nils Holland To: "K.S.R.Dias" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: floppy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011114232508.Q424-100000@howie.ncptiddische.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, K.S.R.Dias wrote: > Hi there, > > I downloaded files from floppies directory for Freebsd 4.4,they > are in my hard drive now.But I cannot copy them to floppy disk as those > files are slightly higher than the capacity of 2HD floppy disk.My aim is to > install version 4.4 to a different computer using those floppies.I am a > newcomer to UNIX.Any suggestions to get those floppy files. You cannot simply copy the downloaded floppy images to a floppy disk. You need to write them in "raw" mode. If you are using Windows / DOS (I have the strange feeling that you do that right now), you need a special utility which is - as far as I know - also available where you downloaded the floppy images (I don't have any further information on how to use that utility, but I guess it's easy). Under FreeBSD or any other Unix, you'd do something like dd if=floppyimage of=/dev/fd0 to get your floppy image written to a floppy disk. Hope that helps as least a little bit. Greetings Nils Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message