From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 10 19:32:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA16825 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 19:32:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA16819 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 19:32:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA15373; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 19:32:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 19:32:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Terry Griffith cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot.flp floppy In-Reply-To: <3415E0BB.3E8F@mci.net> 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 Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Terry Griffith wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2-2-2 and can't make a boot floppy. I > execute fdimage and get error "file too big". Indeed it is 1.48M. I > had supposed that that the unformatted capacity being greater, and this > not being a FAT OS, that fdimage could squeeze the boot.flp file onto a > 1.44M floppy. Is that the case? If so I have an entire box of floppies > with bad sectors, which I hope is unlikely. You probably downloaded the boot.flp image with Netscape, which mistakenly downloaded it in ASCII mode. When you go to download the file, right-click on the link and select "Save As" or use FTP in Binary mode. Common problem :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo