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Date:      Mon, 26 Jan 1998 10:07:10 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Pablo Quintana <quintana@hondutel.hn>
Cc:        George <kf7nn@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: It keeps rebooting during installation
Message-ID:  <19980126100710.25179@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199801251117.LAA04555@miraf-server2.hondutel.hn>; from Pablo Quintana on Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 11:16:48AM -0600
References:  <199801251117.LAA04555@miraf-server2.hondutel.hn>

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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



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