From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Nov 15 1:50: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B027937B416 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 01:50:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id fAF9o1D09875; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 01:50:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 01:50:01 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200111150950.fAF9o1D09875@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: "Crist J. Clark" Subject: Re: misc/31931: For floppy install, fdimage reports 'File too large' for both kern.flp and mfsroot.flp Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark" Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR misc/31931; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Mitch Baxter Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/31931: For floppy install, fdimage reports 'File too large' for both kern.flp and mfsroot.flp Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 01:41:28 -0800 On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 06:52:29AM -0800, Mitch Baxter wrote: [snip] > >Description: > The floppy-based installation instructions in the online documentation say to issue the following command to create the boot floppies for FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386: > > "fdimage kern.flp a:" > > However, fdimage.exe reports that the file kern.flp is too large. > >How-To-Repeat: > Just issue the indicated command at any DOS prompt using kern.flp or mfsroot.flp for FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386. > >Fix: > Use rawrite.exe instead of fdimage.exe with the same command syntax. How big are your 'kern.flp' and 'mfsroot.flp' files? The most common cause of this error is the files being corrupted during download. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message