From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 5 09:24:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA23125 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 09:24:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from foo.bar.com (F211-070.net.wisc.edu [144.92.211.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA23117 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 09:24:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jesse@foo.bar.com) Received: from localhost (jesse@localhost) by foo.bar.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA00239; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 23:12:35 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 23:12:34 -0600 (CST) From: "jtkipp@students.wisc.edu" To: "Van Den Bergh, Andreas" cc: "'FreeBSD'" Subject: Re: installing boot.flp In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Van Den Bergh, Andreas wrote: > Hi, > I've downloaded boot.flp, ... but it's 1,479,138 bytes big, and this > does not > fit on a 1.44 MByte floppy. Used fdimage.exe but it gives me an error > that > there's not enough space on the floppy. > What do I do wrong. > ThanX Are you using a new disk? the boot.flp (by nessecity) is almost _exactly_ the size of a HD floppy, if you are using an old disk and it has _any_ bad sectors you won't be able to use it, because the format will write around them and you'll be short on disk space (this has happened to me before...). If you are in dos also try "fdimage /?" and manually entering the parameters, like "fdimage -s 1.44M -f c:\freebsd\boot.flp -d a:" or something like that (the "-*" are prolly wrong letters, but that is what it looks like...) Jesse kipp Jtkipp@students.wisc.edu