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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


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