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Date:      Thu, 22 Jan 1998 17:38:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com>
To:        lamofor@glam.ac.uk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: installation boot disk
Message-ID:  <19980123013808.10832.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com>

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Linus these problems usually happen when fdimage is run in a DOS window.
Try running it in a full screen DOS or maybe even booting to a DOS
floppy.

Rudy


---"Mofor L A (SoBE)" <lamofor@glam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hello.
> 
> I have been trying to create an installation this without success. The
> boot.flp file is 1,474,560 and the size of the floppy disk is
1,456,796.
> 
> I have the fdimage.exe and the boot.flp files in my c:\freebsd
> directory. After running 
> 
> fdimage boot.flp a: 
> 
> the floppy disk becomes unreadable and I have to reformat it with the
> DOS format command. 
> 
> Can you kindly give me some suggestions on how to proceed in getting
> freesbd installed please? My current system is using Windows 95/NT.
> 
> Many thanks for your time and help.
> 
> Linus
> 


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