From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 13:26:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24638 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:26:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA24631 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:26:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-114.laker.net [208.0.233.14]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id QAA10804; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:25:49 -0500 Message-Id: <199811092125.QAA10804@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "ablesoft@ozemail.com.au" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 16:17:37 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: fdimage problem on IBM PC Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 06 Nov 1998 17:12:54 -0800, Ablesoft wrote: >When I try to fdimage boot.flp a: I get an error message saying that the >image is too large. Does anyone know what this means? I have downloaded >the boot.flp file several times but still get the same error. Some ftp software will default to downloading in ascii. boot.flp should be downloaded in binary. At your ftp prompt, type binary before you issue the get. You might try using rawrite instead of fdimage. Some others have reported problems using fdimage. Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message