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From: burford@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu (burford amanda kay)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 newer boot.flp bad?
Date: 22 Nov 1994 21:31:05 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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Frank DeBolt (frank@ipctech.com) wrote:
: I've downloaded the file
: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.0-ALPHA/floppies/newer/boot.flp.
: The file seems to be too big to fit on a 1.44mb floppy ( I get error messages
: when I try, and the floppy won't boot )  Am I missing something here?
: When I downloaded the original boot.flp it wouldn't recognize my Adaptec
: 2842 SCSI controller.


2.0 release's boot flp id bigger than 1.44 as well...?