From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 9 10:41:59 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA26170 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 10:41:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bsd-daemon.net (bsd-daemon.net [209.90.150.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA26161 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 10:41:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pjp@bsd-daemon.net) Received: from localhost (pjp@localhost) by bsd-daemon.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA14007; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:42:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:42:08 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Philipp To: John cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Creating Boot Disk In-Reply-To: <001701be3b39$3d57ee20$322ef8ce@john> 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 Perhaps you're not rawriting the image to the disk.. get this in the tools directory if you're running DOS. I just looked and it seems it has been superseeded by fdimage.exe. >From the README: Note: RAWRITE.EXE is now outdated and superceded by FDIMAGE.EXE, a more capable tool which works under Windows 95/NT. Hope that helps, Peter Philipp (PP2441) Daemonic Networks "In theory, theory is the same as practice, but not in practice" - ??? On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, John wrote: > Hello, > I'm interested in trying FreeBSD on my system, but I've run into a problem creating the boot disk. I keep getting errors telling the 1.44M disk I'm using isn't large enough for the image file. I've tried following the instructions at the web site - with no luck! I must be missing something in the instructions. Can somebody help? > Thanks :) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message