Re: flp wont load to floppies

right, if you are trying to copy the image directly to a fat16 (windows
format) floppy disk, you might run out of room because the fat16 fs takes up
some space on the disk. Also, the disks might be bad and be covered with bad
sectors that you can't use. Make sure you are doing it the right way and try
some other disks too. The last time I installed, I had to boot from floppy
and went through about 4 or 5 disks before I had enough good ones.

On 3/31/06, Jon Krause <data2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


----- Original Message -----
From: "A B" Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 12:02 PM
Subject: flp wont load to floppies


1) either by copying to destop, then floppy,
or directly from FTP site,
the floppy disks does not have enough space for the
release 6.0 disks... boot, fixit, kern1. suggestions?

2) I'm using a IBM Thinkpad 600e 400mHz without much sucess.
Will FreeBSD install on this machine?


Are you attempting to prepare these floppies on a "Windows * " machine?
Are you following the directions in the handbook?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html

Specifically, using "fdimage" to copy the .flp files to (floppy)disk?




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