From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 10 13:33:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03760 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 13:33:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03646 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 13:32:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsdlist@federation.addy.com) Received: from localhost (fbsdlist@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA17927; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 16:32:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 16:32:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Cliff Addy To: Doug Rebel cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem In-Reply-To: <19980410201838.20202.qmail@hotmail.com> 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 On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Doug Rebel wrote: > To Whom It May Concern, > I am trying to use FreeBSD but for some reason the install file > won't fit on a disk. The disks are 3.5" and 1.44 meg disks but they all > read 1.38 megs. I had friends try to see if they could do it, but they > got the same problem. Please help me. Thank You. I see this all the time on pre-formatted disks (anyone know why?). Not being a DOS weenie, I don't remember the exact syntax, but just reformat it without the format recovery turned on and without system files. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message