From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 2 10:58:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12447 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 10:58:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12399 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 10:57:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA11268; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 10:57:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 10:57:30 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jerome Jordan <1leader@bellsouth.net> cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: BootFloppy Image In-Reply-To: <01BD2DDC.E183ACC0@host-207-53-2-238.atl.bellsouth.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Jerome Jordan wrote: > My question is regarding the download process of the floppy image > directly from the link provided in the download instruction section of > your web site. > When attempting this, I receive a message that the file I'm > downloading is larger than the destination can handle (in this case I > downloaded directly to the floppy in drive A:). I then downloaded the > file to my hard disk and checked the size of the file. It shows as being > 1.40mb but the floppy, when formatted fresh, can only hold 1.38mb. Is > there something simple I'm missing? Did you try writing the floppy with fdimage anyway? You may have selected to leave unformat information on the disk which will take space. fdimage needs the disk formatted so it can determine it's size, after that it just blows right over it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major