From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Nov 23 19:27:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA27723 for doc-outgoing; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 19:27:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc) Received: from luomat.peak.org (cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.83.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA27709 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 19:27:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luomat@luomat.peak.org) Received: (from luomat@localhost) by luomat.peak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA18950; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 22:27:26 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199711240327.WAA18950@luomat.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.1mach v148) X-Image-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/luomat@peak.org.tiff In-Reply-To: <971123215746_476974659@mrin86.mail.aol.com> X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 4.1mach (Enhance 2.0b6.5) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.148.RR) From: Timothy J Luoma Date: Sun, 23 Nov 97 22:27:10 -0500 To: QHunt29936@aol.com Subject: Re: can't copy boot.flp to a floppy of 1.44MB cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG References: <971123215746_476974659@mrin86.mail.aol.com> X-Image-URL-Disclaimer: hey, it's off my student ID, gimme a break ;-) Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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