From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 8 12:49:08 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA00772 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 12:49:08 -0700 Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA00473 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 12:46:06 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V4.3-10 #7297) id <01HV07XG29PC001IC5@mail.rwth-aachen.de>; Thu, 07 Sep 1995 19:23:06 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.8/8.6.9) id TAA00208; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 19:39:06 +0200 Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 19:39:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies Subject: Re: higher density diskettes In-reply-to: <1337.810473461@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Sep 7, 95 04:31:01 am To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Reply-to: Christoph Kukulies Message-id: <199509071739.TAA00208@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-type: text Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-length: 1352 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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. > > This is very interesting. If it works for them, we can do that too. > The changes to the floppy-build procedure is rather few, but I still > suggest we hang in there until we hear how much trouble MS has with it... And they *have* trouble. Microsoft Direct in Germany has established a hotline for sending in 'unreadable diskettes'. They ship their 15 diskette Win95 full version set with the first two diskettes in 1.44 MB format and the famous 'Diskette 2' (numbered 3 :-o) and the rest in 1.63 MB (1,716 Mio bytes) diskettes. They blame it on virii on customers machines when their diskettes become unreadable (so written in a note in the CI$ Win95 Setup conference). A not yet known virus not being recognized by todays common virus scanners. I wonder whether their next product will be the 'ultimate virus scanner' ;-) > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. > http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. > whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. > Just that: dried leaves in boiling water ? > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de