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Roberto Ruffinengo schrieb:
> 
> Hi all,
> i am experiencing some difficulties  in getting FreeBSD from the net.
> the  4.3 ISO image  seems to be   broken . I have downloaded it but the
> md5  signature does't correspond whith the one i downloaded from the
> server. I tried two times.
> 
> Anyone else notice this?
> 
> Maybe incredible (i think that !) but also the floppy  images seem to be
> broken.
> 
> They are to large.
> 
> On my HD:
> 
> D:\pub\FreeBSD>dir
> 17/07/01  09.30         <DIR>          .
> 17/07/01  09.30         <DIR>          ..
> 17/07/01  09.30              1.479.435 kern.flp
> 17/07/01  09.31              1.477.682 mfsroot.flp
>                4 File      2.957.117 byte
> 
> They are too big, so i get this error :
> 
> D:\pub\FreeBSD> fdimage kern.flp a:
> kern.flp - File is too big
> 
> I hope someone can help me.

Don't use Internet Exploder to download the images. Known bugs in some
versions will corrupt the images. Use the command line client (DOS
window) instead. Pay attention the download mode is bin[ary] when
downloading the image files.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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