From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 26 18:14:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ogopogo.flash.net (ogopogo.flash.net [209.30.2.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F57C37B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:14:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.fosburgh.org (p242.amax15.dialup.hou1.flash.net [209.30.162.242]) by ogopogo.flash.net (8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA28437; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:14:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from wotan@localhost) by gw.fosburgh.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9R1E8x12439; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:14:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from wotan) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:14:07 -0500 From: Jonathan E Fosburgh To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Richard Lemieux , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: trouble Message-ID: <20001026201407.A6177@gw.fosburgh.org> References: <20001026175501.Q28123@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20001026175501.Q28123@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 19:55:01 -0500 X-Mailer: Balsa 0.8.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 19:55:01 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Richard Lemieux [001026 17:40] wrote: > > 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??? > > Read the docs again, you need to use the fdimage.exe tool to > create the disks. > I believe he said he was trying to fdimage them ... What exactly are the commands you are typing? -- Jonathan Fosburgh Open Systems MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX Home Page: http://www.fosburgh.org Manager, FreeBSD Webring: http://www.fosburgh.org/computer/freebsdring.html ICQ: 32742908 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message