From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 20 00:01:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA16578 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 00:01:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA16569 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 00:01:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA00483; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 09:01:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id JAA09993; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 09:07:03 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <19970620090702.20657@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 09:07:02 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies To: Rod Ruggiero Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1.44 M References: <33A982F9.35B6@aloha.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.75e In-Reply-To: <33A982F9.35B6@aloha.net>; from Rod Ruggiero on Thu, Jun 19, 1997 at 09:05:29AM -1000 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Jun 19, 1997 at 09:05:29AM -1000, Rod Ruggiero wrote: > Hi, tried to download the boot file to floppy to see if I can use > freeBSD and to my surprise, it won't fit! My 1.44 Meg floppies format > to 1.38. I have Windows 95 on an Acer Pentium. I ahte to look stupid Looks like you have bad media and not all sectors got formatted. Did you make sure that you downloaded in binary mode (in case you were using ftp)? Did you compare the MD5 checksums? > but... > Thanks. > Rod -- -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de