From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 9 10:15:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA14817 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 10:15:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA14806 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 10:15:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jer@jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA10251; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 12:15:45 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 12:15:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner To: peter82@geocities.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.5 floppy In-Reply-To: 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 And don't try to just copy the file onto the floppy. You use fdimage.exe or rawrite.exe to write the contents of boot.flp to the disk. On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, P Lynch wrote: > make sure you downloaded the floppy disk in binary format, not ascii > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net > Systems Administrator Rush Networking > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 peter82@geocities.com wrote: > > > I can't get a floppy to hold 1474560 bytes, I've tried formatting them to the fullest, but it still only holds 1457664 bytes. > > I don't know why it's doing this... help! > > > > -Waiting anxiously > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message