From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 4 11:06:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA07876 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 4 May 1997 11:06:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA07852 for ; Sun, 4 May 1997 11:06:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA14161; Sun, 4 May 1997 11:04:24 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199705041804.LAA14161@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: DXF?? format disk To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 11:04:24 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19970504095443.PB53897@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at May 4, 97 09:54:43 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Is it possible to format and use the 2MB format disks (like win95 is > > distributed on) in FreeBSD? > > Probably not, but i don't know which format they are using. What > would we gain from this? The boot floppy needs to be understood by > the BIOS anyway, so it must be 1.44 MB. But then, we only have one > floppy at all. :-) It's not 2M, it's either two or three more tracks, and it assumes a driver that works. It's about 1.7M instead of 1.44M. One of the things MS has had to do is make alternate distribution media available to people with older floppy drives. >From what I recall, this was a "save one disk out of every seven" strategy, and was intended for distribution media and disk duplication cost-cutting, and not much else. Is your intent the same, or are you just trying to find an OS capable of copying the MS disks? 8-). Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.