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Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:09:00 -0500
From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com>
To: rt <rtecco@umich.edu>
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Subject: Re: building a fixit floppy?
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I don't know where you came across a 2.88M fixit.flp...  But, if
you go to your friendly local ftp.freebsd.org mirror and look for:

pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.2-RELEASE/floppies/fixit.flp

You will find a 1.44M version :)

On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:02:16PM -0500, rt wrote:
> 
> 	i am having trouble building a fixit floppy - which is
> 	2.88 M image. i can perform:
> 
> 	dd if=fixit.flp of=/dev/fd0c (on my openbsd box)
> 
> 	but it reaches the end of the device, writing 1.44 (obviously).
> 
> 	when i try to use this disk, it looks like it works, but 
> 	commands like 'ls' and 'mount' just print garbage to the screen.
> 	i don't know whether this is a corrupted binary or something
> 	else.
> 
> 	thx in advance,
> 	rt
> 
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