Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:58:49 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: floppy Message-ID: <20011114235849.A30181@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20011114232508.Q424-100000@howie.ncptiddische.net> References: <NBBBKIDEDHDPCKOPBNKMKENGDCAA.kdias@ezrock.com> <20011114232508.Q424-100000@howie.ncptiddische.net>
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On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:27:24PM +0100, Nils Holland wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, K.S.R.Dias wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > I downloaded files from floppies directory for Freebsd 4.4,they > > are in my hard drive now.But I cannot copy them to floppy disk as those > > files are slightly higher than the capacity of 2HD floppy disk.My aim is to > > install version 4.4 to a different computer using those floppies.I am a > > newcomer to UNIX.Any suggestions to get those floppy files. > > You cannot simply copy the downloaded floppy images to a floppy disk. You > need to write them in "raw" mode. If you are using Windows / DOS (I have > the strange feeling that you do that right now), you need a special > utility which is - as far as I know - also available where you downloaded > the floppy images (I don't have any further information on how to use that > utility, but I guess it's easy). > I think it's called "rawrite.exe" or something similar... > Under FreeBSD or any other Unix, you'd do something like > > dd if=floppyimage of=/dev/fd0 > > to get your floppy image written to a floppy disk. > > Hope that helps as least a little bit. > > Greetings > Nils > > > Nils Holland > Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany > http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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