From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 7 07:13:33 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id HAA21542 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 07:13:33 -0700 Received: from efn.efn.org (efn.org [198.68.17.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA21532 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 07:13:30 -0700 Received: from garcia.efn.org by efn.efn.org (4.1/smail2.5/05-07-92) id AA04225; Thu, 7 Sep 95 07:11:57 PDT Received: from nike.efn.org (garcia.efn.org) by garcia.efn.org (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27612; Thu, 7 Sep 95 07:12:30 PDT Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 07:13:38 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: higher density diskettes In-Reply-To: <199509071133.NAA03804@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 7 Sep 1995, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > Microsoft has switched to using so called DMF format > (Distribution Media Format - 1,716,224 bytes 1.63 MB) on > diskettes for the WIN95 distrubution disks. > > I suggest to if not switch to that format to at least > start discussing if that would be feasible or could be used > for an even better install disk or fixit floppies. > BTW I tried to mount one of the Win95 Install disks and > got a kernel messages: > > blues# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0.1720 /mnt > mountmsdosfs(): root directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in length > blues# > blues# ls /mnt > win95_08.cab > blues# umount /mnt I have a set of dos utils that allows you to format and use 1.72meg disks under dos... and actually... one thing I really liked about the 2.0R install is that you could specify /dev/fd0.1720... that would mean you could get 7 parts instead of the usual 6... I also use 1.72meg disk to store a lot of old downloaded software I might need... some of the disks are even DD with the hole punched and I have had no problems with them... If you guys like I could upload the program for dos some where... It has a nice chart on what you can do, i.e. read the disk, with and without the special program... like you can read a 1.48meg disk without any driver loaded under dos... plus with it you can format your 5-1/2 floppies to 1.48megs... and that would be quite nice to set as the new top limit :) TTYL... John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org Modem/FAX: (503) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)