From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 27 0:55:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C82B437B479 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 00:55:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 46166 invoked by uid 100); 27 Oct 2000 07:55:28 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14841.13552.430452.134216@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 02:55:28 -0500 (CDT) To: "Richard Lemieux" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble In-Reply-To: <96682354@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Richard Lemieux writes: > 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??? Did you by any chance copy the file images in text mode? Doing so will cause newline characters to be translated into carriage-return newlines, which not only corrupt executables, but expand the image files so they are slightly larger than they should be.