From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 11 00:24:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA25906 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:24:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA25898 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:24:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA28806; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:24:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:24:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "mail.sirinet.net" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with the boot floppy image. In-Reply-To: <000701bd6509$74fd24a0$575003cf@default> 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 Sat, 11 Apr 1998, mail.sirinet.net wrote: > I bought my first computer (AMD-K6) in February and became interested in > installing Free BSD. After downloading the boot.flp file I noticed the > file was 1.40 MB. But when I formatted my 1.44 MB disk, it only leaves > 1.38 left over, and i am unable to transfer it to my disk. I have > access to 2.0 MB disks, and 1.0 GB SparQ disks, but the FAQ says BSD > requires 1.44 MB disks. What am I doing wrong? You're using copy. :) Use the fdimage or rawrite program to write the image to the floppy. These should be available where you found the floppy image in tools/. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message