From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 26 17:57: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (mail-2.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF3837B4C5 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:57:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoso (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA27069; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:52:43 -0700 (PDT) From: "Otter" To: "Richard Lemieux" , Subject: RE: trouble Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:00:29 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Richard, When formatting your disks on a windows machine, make sure you do NOT check the box that says something along the lines of "copy system files". You just want a blank formatted disk. The 1.44MB kern.flp and mfsroot.flp files will fit on there if done properly with fdimage or rawrite. -Otter }-----Original Message----- }From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of }Richard Lemieux }Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 8:40 PM }To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }Subject: trouble } } }I am about to try freebsd but got stuck before beginning. }When I try to }fdimage kern and mfsroot I get the message file too big. My }disks are fresh }formatted and indicate slightly larger than the file. }Didn't think I would }have trouble so soon. Any help??? }Thanks, }Rick }_____________________________________________________________ }____________ }Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message