Add a Q. on the boot floppy image not fitting on a floppy.

Approved-by: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> (FAQ maintainer)
Commented-on-rather-lengthily-by: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>.
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url="../handbook/install.html"
name="Handbook entry on installing FreeBSD.">
<sect1>
<heading>Help! The boot floppy image will not fit on a single floppy!
</heading>
<p>A 3.5 inch (1.44MB) floppy can accomodate 1474560 bytes of data.
The boot image is exactly 1474560 bytes in size.
<p>Common mistakes when preparing the boot floppy are:
<itemize>
<item>Not downloading the floppy image in <tt>binary</tt> mode when
using <tt>FTP</tt>.
<p>Some FTP clients default their transfer mode to <tt>ascii</tt>
and attempt to change any end-of-line characters received to match
the conventions used by the client's system.
This will almost invariably corrupt the boot image. Check the
size of the downloaded boot image: if it is not <em>exactly</em>
that on the server, then the download process is suspect.
<p>To workaround: type <tt>binary</tt> at the FTP command prompt
after getting connected to the server and before starting the
download of the image.
<item>Using the DOS <tt>copy</tt> command (or equivalent GUI tool) to
transfer the boot image to floppy.
<p>Programs like <tt>copy</tt> will not work as the boot
image has been created to be booted into directly. The image has
the complete content of the floppy, track for track, and is not
meant to be placed on the floppy as a regular file.
You have to transfer it to the floppy ``raw'', using the
low-level tools (e.g. <tt>fdimage</tt> or <tt>rawrite</tt>)
described in the <url url="../handbook/install.html"
name="installation guide to FreeBSD">.
</itemize>
<sect1>
<heading>Where are the instructions for installing FreeBSD?</heading>