Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:50:45 -0600 From: "Joseph E. Royce" <joe@freyr.cba.ualr.edu> To: Kamath <kamath@cs.odu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot.flp too big Message-ID: <20001030185045.A11581@freyr.cba.ualr.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10010301718120.26215-100000@ren.cs.odu.edu>; from kamath@cs.odu.edu on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:21:16PM -0500 References: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10010301718120.26215-100000@ren.cs.odu.edu>
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On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:21:16PM -0500, 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? > > > Any assistance will be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Praveen > Read the following for your answer: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.1.1-RELEASE/floppies/README.TXT -Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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