From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 1 07:24:41 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA05342 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:24:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-punt-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA05326 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:24:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 107LDA-0006B8-00; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 15:24:29 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id PAA03178; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 15:24:13 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (rasnt-2) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07118; Mon, 1 Feb 99 15:24:09 GMT Message-Id: <36B5C138.D4A1D3EC@uk.radan.com> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 14:59:04 +0000 From: Mark Ovens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot.flp too large (revisited) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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