From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 10 16:37:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA11565 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 16:37:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (root@jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA11453 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 16:37:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul7.u.washington.edu (root@saul7.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.2]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id QAA25816; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 16:37:04 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul7.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id QAA04793; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 16:37:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 15:35:56 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Jim Hall cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem In-Reply-To: <000701bd64b7$189bd320$0ce7f2cd@farside.iland.net> 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, Jim Hall wrote: > To Whom It May Concern, > I am trying to get freebsd but i downloaded the install file > that you are supposed to but up with and that won't fit on a disk. I > have 1.44 meg disks, but they all read 1.38megs. I have friends that > have tried also and had the same problem. Please help me!!!. > Thank You Please turn off the html in your mailer. Please share this with the other guy who posted the exact same message. The file you download is a disk image. You must write the image to the floppy using rawrite per the instructions on the website. Be sure to format the floppy in dos before writing the image to the floppy. Have fun, | Stop warning me about the latest virus. Learn more... Jason Wells | http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message