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From: Mitch Baxter <jbaxter@wi.rr.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: For floppy install, fdimage reports 'File too large' for both kern.flp and mfsroot.flp
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>Number:         31931
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       For floppy install, fdimage reports 'File too large' for both kern.flp and mfsroot.flp
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Nov 12 07:00:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:    Wed Jan 2 09:03:55 PST 2002
>Last-Modified:  Wed Jan 02 09:05:20 PST 2002
>Originator:     Mitch Baxter
>Release:        4.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
      The floppy-based installation instructions in the online documentation say to issue the following command to create the boot floppies for FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386:

"fdimage kern.flp a:"

However, fdimage.exe reports that the file kern.flp is too large.
>How-To-Repeat:
      Just issue the indicated command at any DOS prompt using kern.flp or mfsroot.flp for FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386.
>Fix:
      Use rawrite.exe instead of fdimage.exe with the same command syntax.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To: Mitch Baxter <jbaxter@wi.rr.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/31931: For floppy install, fdimage reports 'File too large' for both kern.flp and mfsroot.flp
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 01:41:28 -0800

 On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 06:52:29AM -0800, Mitch Baxter wrote:
 [snip]
 
 > >Description:
 >       The floppy-based installation instructions in the online documentation say to issue the following command to create the boot floppies for FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386:
 > 
 > "fdimage kern.flp a:"
 > 
 > However, fdimage.exe reports that the file kern.flp is too large.
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 >       Just issue the indicated command at any DOS prompt using kern.flp or mfsroot.flp for FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386.
 > >Fix:
 >       Use rawrite.exe instead of fdimage.exe with the same command syntax.
 
 How big are your 'kern.flp' and 'mfsroot.flp' files? The most common
 cause of this error is the files being corrupted during download.
 -- 
 Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                    |     cjclark@jhu.edu
 http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: bmah 
State-Changed-When: Thu Dec 27 21:46:39 PST 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Is this still a problem (i.e. are your kern.flp and mfsroot.flp files 
intact)? 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=31931 

From: "Mitch Baxter" <jbaxter@wi.rr.com>
To: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>, <jbaxter@wi.rr.com>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/31931: For floppy install, fdimage reports 'File too large' for both kern.flp and mfsroot.flp
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:06:09 -0600

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 As I indicated in my bug report, I used rawrite.exe to properly prepare =
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 Does the fdimage.exe program work for other users?
 
 As far as I'm concerned, this thread is closed.
 
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State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: bmah 
State-Changed-When: Wed Jan 2 09:03:55 PST 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
Submitter says this PR can be closed. 

(For the record, I personally am not aware of any problems with 
fdimage.exe, although I haven't used boot floppies for awhile.) 


http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=31931 
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