Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 14:16:31 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: doug mackenzie <pdmackenzie@Better.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot disk? Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.02.9809111411560.7627-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <19980910174738513.AAA412@qtimpact>
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On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, doug mackenzie wrote:
> Maybe I am just proving myself to be ignorant, but I don't understand how
> one can use the "boot.flp" installation boot disk provided through your
> wedsite to reboot and test my hardware's freeBSD compatability.
>
> 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?
> doug
The `boot.flp' file is a raw disk image which you write to your
floppy using `fdwrite.exe'. The `real-capacity' figure you quote would
most likely be what MS-DOS says is available after it has written a
filesystem to the floppy, and has little bearing in this case.
--
Jonathan Chen
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char *p="char *p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}
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