From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 30 16:50:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freyr.valhalla.home (access62.mod1.ualr.edu [144.167.7.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E84937B4C5 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:50:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from joe@localhost) by freyr.valhalla.home (8.11.1/8.11.1) id e9V0ojk11637; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:50:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:50:45 -0600 From: "Joseph E. Royce" To: Kamath Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot.flp too big Message-ID: <20001030185045.A11581@freyr.cba.ualr.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from kamath@cs.odu.edu on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:21:16PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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