From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 15:36:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cafes.net (mail.cafes.net [207.65.182.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC2037B65E for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 15:36:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cafes.net (mail.cafes.net [207.65.182.25]) by mail.cafes.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA29858; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 17:36:05 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 17:36:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Eldridge To: d X Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: about downloading freebsd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As stated all over the FreeBSD documentation (and in various common sense manuals), these files are *images*. They contain a filesystem. You don't copy them to the disk, that would do nothing, you write the image over the disk. There should be an imaging utility (fdimage.exe) on your FreeBSD cd under the tools directory. If you have another unix box available, use dd. It might also benefit you to actually read the documentation before resorting to other methods. The README.TXT file located in the floppies directory was made for this purpose. Mike ----------------------------------------------------- Save the whales. Feed the hungry. Free the mallocs. On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, d X wrote: > hi, i tried to dl the kern.flp file, and i just bought mf2hd formatted > 1.44mb floppies, and when it gets to 1.40mb, it says that the file you i too > large for the disk, please insert a disk with a higher capacity, i then try > to put in another disk, and i can't , i have the files on my c drive but i > cant copy it to drive a. pls let me know if there is something else i can do > to get unix as a 2nd os, thank you very much. > Moe. > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message