From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 15:56:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7670937B681 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 15:56:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 824CB328F; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:20:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6739A328E; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:20:00 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:20:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell 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 You need to use the fdimage.exe program to "make" the boot disks... you can't just copy the images over. It can be found in the /tools directory either off of your CDROM, or on the FTP site. You may also want to read the instructions at www.freebsd.org :) Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org 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