From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 31 19:10:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C52616A422 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:10:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greenwood.andy@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C9A543D58 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:10:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from greenwood.andy@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id l8so910104nzf for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:10:57 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=uSK7/+Zc/zUBeB0uniVfh3C+Oj7mxk0MD6dkqeWZZVzkqn3WnKGLv9mQneN4hAZApiTTWojTF/P1/yn4J0V6DGywqMsteTVXRNwwdcbAYAwoSee+HKf67KD9NjMspSz3RMDnjlnj4SJNeuP6AqwnSm4RbBmebTIBdJSBug5oYGo= Received: by 10.35.50.9 with SMTP id c9mr663032pyk; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:10:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.52.10 with HTTP; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:10:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3ee9ca710603311110q42c27da8n7f8e1fbbe479d4a0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:10:56 -0500 From: "Andy Greenwood" To: "FreeBSD Questions" In-Reply-To: <037a01c654ec$fb2c7e50$05dc3818@mdm246a3e4f6fc> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060331170240.34590.qmail@web35014.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <037a01c654ec$fb2c7e50$05dc3818@mdm246a3e4f6fc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: flp wont load to floppies X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:10:58 -0000 right, if you are trying to copy the image directly to a fat16 (windows format) floppy disk, you might run out of room because the fat16 fs takes u= p some space on the disk. Also, the disks might be bad and be covered with ba= d sectors that you can't use. Make sure you are doing it the right way and tr= y some other disks too. The last time I installed, I had to boot from floppy and went through about 4 or 5 disks before I had enough good ones. On 3/31/06, Jon Krause wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "A B" Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 12:02 PM > Subject: flp wont load to floppies > > > > 1) either by copying to destop, then floppy, > > or directly from FTP site, > > the floppy disks does not have enough space for the > > release 6.0 disks... boot, fixit, kern1. suggestions? > > > > 2) I'm using a IBM Thinkpad 600e 400mHz without much sucess. > > Will FreeBSD install on this machine? > > > > Are you attempting to prepare these floppies on a "Windows * " machine? > Are you following the directions in the handbook? > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.htm= l > > Specifically, using "fdimage" to copy the .flp files to (floppy)disk? > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC for > low, > low rates. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >