From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 10 11:39:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA26717 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:39:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26704 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:39:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id LAA12435; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:37:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:37:50 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199809101837.LAA12435@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: pdmackenzie@Better.net Subject: Re: boot disk? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980910174738513.AAA412@qtimpact> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: "doug mackenzie" >Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:34:24 -0400 >The problem- 1.44M floppies (on my machine anyway) seem to have a real >capacity of 1.38M while the "boot.flp" file is 1.4M. What gives? The "boot.flp" file is an image of the floppy -- just copy it on top of the floppy (rather than copying it as a file on the floppy). For example, in a normal UNIX environment, a way to do this is dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/rfd0 bs=720k and dd will come back & say that (exactly) 2 blocks were copied. That's how I create the boot floppies I use here. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message