Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 08:06:36 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: higher density diskettes Message-ID: <199509080606.IAA11721@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199509072141.HAA00201@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Sep 8, 95 07:11:25 am
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As Michael Smith wrote: > > > BTW I tried to mount one of the Win95 Install disks and > > got a kernel messages: > > Oooh, they're wasting space with a root directory! Sin! can't have that. I bet the root directory and the single file therein are actually dummies. They are only there to not confuse people looking at it without the proper driver loaded. I've already been discussing this with Bruce (altough, this has been at the time the article about OS/2's install floppies appeared here), and the result was that it's rather useless since the BIOS cannot handle it, and our installation procedure does require a single (1.2 MB !!!) floppy at all. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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