From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 10 19:17:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA22275 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:17:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA22270 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:17:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA16014; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 14:16:31 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 14:16:31 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: doug mackenzie cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot disk? In-Reply-To: <19980910174738513.AAA412@qtimpact> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ----- char *p="char *p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message