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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<!-- $Id: install.sgml,v 1.3 1998-06-27 01:13:49 hoek Exp $ -->
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<!-- $Id: install.sgml,v 1.4 1998-07-03 06:06:34 jkoshy Exp $ -->
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<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
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<sect>
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url="../handbook/install.html"
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name="Handbook entry on installing FreeBSD.">
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<sect1>
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<heading>Help! The boot floppy image will not fit on a single floppy!
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</heading>
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<p>A 3.5 inch (1.44MB) floppy can accomodate 1474560 bytes of data.
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The boot image is exactly 1474560 bytes in size.
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<p>Common mistakes when preparing the boot floppy are:
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<itemize>
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<item>Not downloading the floppy image in <tt>binary</tt> mode when
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using <tt>FTP</tt>.
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<p>Some FTP clients default their transfer mode to <tt>ascii</tt>
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and attempt to change any end-of-line characters received to match
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the conventions used by the client's system.
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This will almost invariably corrupt the boot image. Check the
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size of the downloaded boot image: if it is not <em>exactly</em>
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that on the server, then the download process is suspect.
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<p>To workaround: type <tt>binary</tt> at the FTP command prompt
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after getting connected to the server and before starting the
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download of the image.
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<item>Using the DOS <tt>copy</tt> command (or equivalent GUI tool) to
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transfer the boot image to floppy.
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<p>Programs like <tt>copy</tt> will not work as the boot
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image has been created to be booted into directly. The image has
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the complete content of the floppy, track for track, and is not
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meant to be placed on the floppy as a regular file.
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You have to transfer it to the floppy ``raw'', using the
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low-level tools (e.g. <tt>fdimage</tt> or <tt>rawrite</tt>)
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described in the <url url="../handbook/install.html"
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name="installation guide to FreeBSD">.
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</itemize>
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<sect1>
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<heading>Where are the instructions for installing FreeBSD?</heading>
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