From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 4 01:20:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA15242 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 4 May 1997 01:20:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA15237 for ; Sun, 4 May 1997 01:20:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA17355 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 4 May 1997 10:20:34 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA29373; Sun, 4 May 1997 09:54:43 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970504095443.PB53897@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 09:54:43 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DXF?? format disk References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from David E. Cross on May 3, 1997 22:18:52 -0400 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As David E. Cross wrote: > 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. :-) I dunno the Winlose format, but the OS/2 installation floppy format has been described in a magazine. It was a really weird format, and as such, you need a machine that can actually _write_ this format first. (I think even an OS/2 machine doesn't qualify for this, IIRC it's read/only when it comes to the filesystem. An OS/2 machine can only copy an entire floppy verbatim. My memory might be fading here though.) This alone makes it fairly pointless to use it, unless of course, you are going to start a business as a FreeBSD floppy release distributor. :-) It's probably not that much of a problem to teach the floppy driver about these weird formats, but it's not exactly fun work either, so i stood away from the temptation to do it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)