From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 30 14:27:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.intop.net (smtp.intop.net [206.156.254.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A047937B479 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:27:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from charlie (iwkcpe.intop.net [208.149.79.30]) by smtp.intop.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA07834; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:28:37 -0600 Message-Id: <200010302228.QAA07834@smtp.intop.net> From: "Charlie Schloemer" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Kamath Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:34:42 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: boot.flp too big In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30 Oct 00, at 17:21, Kamath wrote: > Hello-- > > Boot.flp is too big to fit into a 1.44 Mb floppy! despite what the FAQ > says. I get only around 1457664 bytes of free space after formatting a > 1.44 MB floppy diskette on WindowsNT! What do I do to get around this > problem? Create 2 diskettes? if so how do I do it, the fdimage program > doesn't give any explicit options for usage. > > And for doing an FTP install of (freeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE on i386) do I > really need boot.flp?? or is kern.flp and mfsroot.flp enough? Kamath, boot.flp is 2.88 MB. In order to use 1.44 MB diskettes for install, this image is broken into two new images: kern.flp and mfsroot.flp. Use two floppy disks to get these images on, and then boot from the one with kern.flp. This will solve your problem, and install will prompt you when it's time to insert mfsroot.flp. :-) Cheers, -Charlie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message