From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 25 15:37:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01771 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 15:37:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01757 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 15:37:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA18559; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 10:07:12 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA03587; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 10:07:10 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980126100710.25179@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 10:07:10 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Pablo Quintana Cc: George , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: It keeps rebooting during installation References: <199801251117.LAA04555@miraf-server2.hondutel.hn> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199801251117.LAA04555@miraf-server2.hondutel.hn>; from Pablo Quintana on Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 11:16:48AM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 11:16:48AM -0600, Pablo Quintana wrote: > > Sure it worked. When you try to download the file just by left-clicking it > in your browser (MSIE or Netscape, not sure about others) you only get a > boot.flp file of 515kB. I downloaded the file using an FTP program to be > sure it was binary, and voila! I got a 1.5 MB boot.flp file. Thanks for the > help recieved until now I´m sure I´ll be asking some other things later. > > FreeBSD should warn ppl not to download the file from the Web Site though > from an FTP site. Well, this doesn't happen all the time. We *do* warn people to use binary mode, and not to use Microsoft :-) Greg