From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 14 15: 5:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E18A37B416 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:05:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16495t-0000H4-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:05:22 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id 4529B107B; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:58:49 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:58:49 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: floppy Message-ID: <20011114235849.A30181@raggedclown.net> References: <20011114232508.Q424-100000@howie.ncptiddische.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011114232508.Q424-100000@howie.ncptiddische.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i 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, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:27:24PM +0100, Nils Holland wrote: > 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). > I think it's called "rawrite.exe" or something similar... > 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