From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 31 23:57:32 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA08997 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:57:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA08987 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:57:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA16888; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 18:27:24 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id SAA70559; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 18:27:18 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 18:27:18 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Evren Yurtesen Cc: Doug , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot.flp too large (revisited) Message-ID: <19990201182718.W8473@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Evren Yurtesen on Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 07:49:13AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 1 February 1999 at 7:49:13 +0200, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Doug wrote: >> I want to thank people who responded to my question about "boot.flp" >> being too large to fit on a floppy when using fdimage to create an >> install floppy. >> >> However, boot.flp is still too large. >> >> I really do think I am downloading the file as binary. I am using >> Netscape Communicator 4.06, right-clicking on the boot.flp file and >> saving it as a file. However, it gets saved just a bit larger than the >> floppy size so fdimage won't work. >> >> I have used the same method to download other binary files, such as >> QuickTime from the Apple Site (also an ftp:// link) and after downloading >> the executable runs just fine and QuickTime installs on the NT machine I >> am using. >> >> I even tried changing the name of boot.flp to boot.exe (and then renaming >> it back to boot.flp after downloading) just in case the extension was >> somehow causing Netscape's FTP protocol to not download the file as >> binary. >> >> My question is - are you *really sure* that the current boot.flp is not >> too large? Yes. >> The file size appears to be 1,479,365 bytes. What should it be if I >> downloaded it correctly? > > hello, as I know, boot.flp file should be 1474560 bytes > I am sending a boot.flp file of 3.0-RELEASE with email. > I hope it would work for you People, web browsers and mailers aren't designed for copying binary images. ftp is. Why don't you use it? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message