Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 09:30:23 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> To: ponds!freefall.cdrom.com!freebsd-hackers Subject: 2.2-BETA and 1.2meg floppies? Message-ID: <199701271430.JAA01879@lakes.water.net>
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I'm not sure if Jordan had included this in the "4-meg won't be supported" announcement. But - I was just scrounging together a test-bed machine to let me try these things out ahead of time. Unfortunately, the only floppy drive I could cheaply (i.e. free) acquire is a 1.2 meg floppy. Now, the 2.2-BETA boot floppy, boot.flp, will fit - it's 1177088 bytes long. But, I don't believe the fixit floppy, fixit.flp will since it's 1474560 bytes. [A 5-1/4" floppy has 1228800 bytes.] total 5220 -rw-r--r-- 1 rivers wheel 153 Dec 25 21:52 CHECKSUM.MD5 -rw-r--r-- 1 rivers wheel 699 Dec 23 23:00 README.TXT -rw-r--r-- 1 rivers wheel 1177088 Dec 25 21:42 boot.flp -rw-r--r-- 1 rivers wheel 1474560 Dec 25 21:44 fixit.flp I understand; and agree with the arguments that 1.44 meg floppies are cheap (~$60) - but, I'm under serious austerity measures now and don't think I'll stumble into that $60 any time soon. [We're trying to pay off the house early, you know how it goes - and if not, read last Decemeber's Money Magazine.] So - I was wondering if we can produce a smaller "fixit.flp". Perhaps one without "vi" (just ed would be enough.) might bring it into the 1.2 meg range. I put this together with left-overs from previous projects and some other people's junk they were just going to throw away [cases, monitors, etc..] I was able to scrounge; at absolutely no additional cost was: 386dx-33, 12 meg memory. Aha 1542B, a 5-1/4" floppy, and an old 500 meg SCSI. Serial card with 16450's wired on-board. IDE controller and 40 meg IDE drive (which I saved for another day.) Hercules adapter and a nice Princeton monochrome monitor; plus a used "tilty" monitor stand. NE2000 clone card Ancient/dirty keyboard (switchable between XT/AT, with ESC in the wrong place.) Of course, some of these are parts I had purchased years ago; so I suppose you could say there was some cost; but that should be amatorized across about 6-7 years. - Dave Rivers -
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