Bug 31931

Summary: For floppy install, fdimage reports 'File too large' for both kern.flp and mfsroot.flp
Product: Base System Reporter: Mitch Baxter <jbaxter>
Component: miscAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.4-STABLE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Mitch Baxter 2001-11-12 15:00:00 UTC 
      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.

Fix: 

Use rawrite.exe instead of fdimage.exe with the same command syntax.
How-To-Repeat:       Just issue the indicated command at any DOS prompt using kern.flp or mfsroot.flp for FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386.
Comment 1 Crist J. Clark 2001-11-15 09:41:28 UTC 
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
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Comment 2 Bruce A. Mah freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-12-28 05:46:39 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Is this still a problem (i.e. are your kern.flp and mfsroot.flp files 
intact)?
Comment 3 Mitch Baxter 2001-12-28 16:06:09 UTC 
As I indicated in my bug report, I used rawrite.exe to properly prepare the boot floppies.

Does the fdimage.exe program work for other users?

As far as I'm concerned, this thread is closed.
Comment 4 Bruce A. Mah freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-01-02 17:03:55 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

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.)