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> 
> I just purchased 5.2 FreeBSD.  And with my system i can not boot from
> the CD.  So i tried to make the floppy image and when i formatted the
> floppy it is only 1.38MB and i can not place the image on the disk.
> What should i do.  Is there another way to do this.

On what system did you do the format?
If it was on a Microsoft system, is it possible that system files
were copied to the floppy as part of the format process.  I think
that is the /s flag, but it has been so long, I may remember wrong.
Most of those files are "hidden".

Otherwise, if you formatted it to 1.44MG and nothing else was put
on the disk, then it must have had bad sectors which were excluded.
That could happen either on the MS system or on the FreeBSD system.

If so, just discard that floppy and try another is about all you can do.

////jerry

> - Greg
>