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Date:      Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:15:33 -0400
From:      "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@blinx.net>
To:        <clabrown@granitepost.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: install from CD ... Help!
Message-ID:  <CCEOIFDFIDIGHEEMNANCEEFGCAAA.jslivko@blinx.net>
In-Reply-To: <002201c12424$ce2d9180$8f6896d1@granitepost.com>

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Uhm.... if it's an official CD, you can boot right off of it. Thats what I
do. -- Jonathan

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Jonathan M. Slivko <jslivko@blinx.net>
Blinx Networks, Inc.
http://www.blinx.net/
"Microsoft, is that some kind of toilet paper?"

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Clarence Brown
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 2:22 PM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: install from CD ... Help!


I'm using the 4.3 CD's I received in the mail,
and 2 freshly formatted 1.4 meg floppies.

Here's a copy/paste of the command and return:

C:\>d:\tools\fdimage d:\floppies\kern.flp a:
d:\floppies\kern.flp - File is too big

Here's the state of the floppy:

C:\>chkdsk a:
Volume Serial Number is 18F3-152E

    1,457,664 bytes total disk space
    1,457,664 bytes available on disk

          512 bytes in each allocation unit
        2,847 total allocation units on disk
        2,847 available allocation units on disk

      655,360 total bytes memory
      573,856 bytes free

So, I'm using the right tool, fdimage.exe from
the CD, the right image, d:\floppies\kern.flp,
but it still won't fit. What gives? Is there a
problem with the distribution? I did search the
archives, but the closest just talked about not
downloading in binary mode. However I'm not
downloading, I'm getting it off the CD.

I also tried copying fdimage.exe, kern.flp and
mfsroot.flp to the same temp directory on drive
C: and running fdimage from there without paths,
but I get the same results.

Cla.

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