From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 7 23:21:56 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA22683 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 23:21:56 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA22675 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 23:21:37 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA24936 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 08:21:15 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA21153 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 08:21:14 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA11721 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 08:06:37 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509080606.IAA11721@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: higher density diskettes To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 08:06:36 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509072141.HAA00201@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Sep 8, 95 07:11:25 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 801 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > > > BTW I tried to mount one of the Win95 Install disks and > > got a kernel messages: > > Oooh, they're wasting space with a root directory! Sin! can't have that. I bet the root directory and the single file therein are actually dummies. They are only there to not confuse people looking at it without the proper driver loaded. I've already been discussing this with Bruce (altough, this has been at the time the article about OS/2's install floppies appeared here), and the result was that it's rather useless since the BIOS cannot handle it, and our installation procedure does require a single (1.2 MB !!!) floppy at all. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)