From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 28 07:19:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA15832 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 07:19:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (slipper4a.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA15820 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 07:19:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (zeus.xtalwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA20925; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 10:18:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 10:18:46 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: tuc@stormking.com cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: installing freebsd In-Reply-To: <199704281256.IAA00919@tucslap.stormking.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Scott J. Ellentuch wrote: > I looked around, and EVERY image is 1,474,567 . Actually they are 1,474,560 > Logic dictates to me that everyone should experience the same problem. > But they don't. I've formatted the disk a few times, there are NO bad > parts to it. When you format a floppy, what is the final byte count? Don't worry about the `final byte count' of the formatted floppy. You are writing a disk image to it, not a file. It's the total disk space that counts. 512 bytes/sector x 18 sectors/track x 80 tracks/side x 2 sides/disk ---------------- 1,474,560 bytes/disk The disk and the image are the same size so all is well with the world. If you are getting an image file of a different size try using ftp, and not a web browser, to download it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------