Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 07:13:38 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: higher density diskettes Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.91.950907070830.4252D-100000@nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199509071133.NAA03804@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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On Thu, 7 Sep 1995, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > Microsoft has switched to using so called DMF format > (Distribution Media Format - 1,716,224 bytes 1.63 MB) on > diskettes for the WIN95 distrubution disks. > > I suggest to if not switch to that format to at least > start discussing if that would be feasible or could be used > for an even better install disk or fixit floppies. > BTW I tried to mount one of the Win95 Install disks and > got a kernel messages: > > blues# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0.1720 /mnt > mountmsdosfs(): root directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in length > blues# > blues# ls /mnt > win95_08.cab > blues# umount /mnt I have a set of dos utils that allows you to format and use 1.72meg disks under dos... and actually... one thing I really liked about the 2.0R install is that you could specify /dev/fd0.1720... that would mean you could get 7 parts instead of the usual 6... I also use 1.72meg disk to store a lot of old downloaded software I might need... some of the disks are even DD with the hole punched and I have had no problems with them... If you guys like I could upload the program for dos some where... It has a nice chart on what you can do, i.e. read the disk, with and without the special program... like you can read a 1.48meg disk without any driver loaded under dos... plus with it you can format your 5-1/2 floppies to 1.48megs... and that would be quite nice to set as the new top limit :) TTYL... John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org Modem/FAX: (503) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)
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