From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 14 20:05:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA24497 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 20:05:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.com [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA24492 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 20:05:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id CAA02116; Thu, 15 May 1997 02:33:50 GMT Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 19:33:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Wilton Hughes cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't create boot floppy--disk full In-Reply-To: <199705150021.RAA07800@smtp.northlink.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 14 May 1997, Wilton Hughes wrote: > When I follow the directions in the Handbook to create a boot > floppy I find that I am asked to copy more data to the floppy than > the floppy will hold. What do I do? Re-read the instructions :) You do *not* copy the file to diskette, you use dd or rawrite.exe or another utility that turned up recently to write a disk image to the disk. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82