From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 3 16:52:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA16129 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 16:52:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA16124 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 16:52:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id JAA10861; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 09:52:10 +1000 Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id JAA11706; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 09:21:56 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970904092156.55955@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 09:21:56 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: kstrauss@concentric.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems Creating Boot floppy References: <340DDC69.253A@concentric.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <340DDC69.253A@concentric.net>; from kstrauss on Wed, Sep 03, 1997 at 04:53:45PM -0500 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Sep 03, 1997 at 04:53:45PM -0500, kstrauss wrote: > Help! > > Everytime I try to use fdimage to create the boot floppy from the > boot.flp file I downloaded It tells me the file is too large to write to > disk. > > I've tried to do this in a DOS window in '95 and NT to no avail. > > Do I need to do it in DOS 6.X ?? You proably need to reload the boot floppy image. You probably transferred it with ASCII conversion, which changes every 0x0a byte to the two-byte sequence 0x0d0a. Check the size of the image. It should be 1474560 bytes. If it's more, that's your problem. Greg