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From: kuma <kuma@mathlab.sunysb.edu>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: bootimage
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On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Doug White wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, kuma wrote:
> 
> > hi, 
> > i tried to install FreeBSD, but i can't success.
> > i had problem just to put boot image on floppy.  
> > fdimage told me that boot.flp is too big..??
> 
> Make sure you are trying to write to a 1.44MB 3.5 inch floppy disk that is
> DOS formatted.
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
I did have a new floppy disk formatted with dos, but fdimage did not even
check the disk, it just tells me the file is too large.

Thanks for help