Date: Sun, 23 Nov 97 22:27:10 -0500 From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> To: QHunt29936@aol.com Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't copy boot.flp to a floppy of 1.44MB Message-ID: <199711240327.WAA18950@luomat.peak.org> In-Reply-To: <971123215746_476974659@mrin86.mail.aol.com> References: <971123215746_476974659@mrin86.mail.aol.com>
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Author: QHunt29936@aol.com Original-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 21:57:46 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <971123215746_476974659@mrin86.mail.aol.com> > A floppy disk of 1.44MB has the space 1,474,560 bytes; but the > boot.flp I download from FreeBSD is of 1,546,706 bytes (>1.44MB). > when I "copy boot.flp a:\*.* > /v", I was told "insufficiant space". How can I do the boot disk? See http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html 4.Make the installation boot disk from the image file: -If you are using MS-DOS then download _fdimage.exe_ or get it from tools\fdimage.exe on the CDROM and then run it like so: E:\> tools\fdimage floppies\boot.flp a: The fdimage program will format the A: drive and then copy the boot.flp image onto it (assuming that you're at the top level of a FreeBSD distribution and the floppy images live in the floppies subdirectory, as is typically the case). The 'fdimage' program is at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/tools/fdimage.exe TjL
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