Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 14:59:04 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Doug <doug@inJapan.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot.flp too large (revisited) Message-ID: <36B5C138.D4A1D3EC@uk.radan.com> References: <fc.000f4b93000d6923000f4b93000d6923.d6924@inJapan.net>
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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. > FWIW, I'm sure Netscape screws up files whose type (extension) it doesn't know about. The source for the NTFS driver is in .tgz format. If I d/l it with Netscape in Windows then niether WinZip, gunzip can use it, they both say it's corrupt. D/l it with Netscape for FreeBSD and gunzip and WinZip can unzip it. As a guess Netscape defaults to treating files as ASCII unless it knows the format is binary (thus changing all LF's to CR/LF). > 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? > > The file size appears to be 1,479,365 bytes. What should it be if I > downloaded it correctly? > > Thanks, > > Doug Lerner, Tokyo > doug@inJapan.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. My homepage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, | mailto:marko@uk.radan.com Radan Computational Ltd | http://www.radan.com Bath, England. CAD/CAM solutions | FreeBSD - The Power To Serve for the Sheetmetal Work industry.| http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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