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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 17:31:44 +1000 (EST)
From: Andrew <perrya@python.shoal.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Installation Disk
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I've used fdimage before and it worked ok for me. Doing a dir of the
floppy won't tell you anything as it's the wrong type of file system, you
have to try and boot it. It will take quite a while to write it as well.

Another thing, make sure your ftp client downloads boot.flp in binary
mode.

Andrew Perry

On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Michael G. wrote:

> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 01:48:37 +0000
> From: "Michael G." <mikegoe@ibm.net>
> To: corpse138@juno.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Installation Disk
> 
> Okay... you have the boot.flp file... now get the rawrite.exe file...
> format a 1.44 floppy... then type  'rawrite boot.flp a:' and the boot
> disk will be created... Have Fun!... I was going to include the file 
> you need but then realized you have a juno.com address...
> 
> Michael G.
> 
> 
> 
> > I downloaded boot.flp for the 2.2.2 version, and the fdimage program and
> > had them both in the same directory and typed: fdimage boot.flp a:
> > And i know thats right but it didnt work it took a long time then it went
> > back to the prompt so i went to a: and the disk was blank. Now the
> > boot.flp is about 1.48M its bigger than any 1.44M disks i have but i dont
> > know fdimage might compress the file but i dont know i never used it
> > before.
> > 
> > Thanx,
> > 
> > Mike Thomason
> > 
> > 
>