Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 12:13:39 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: JChenXYin@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (no subject) Message-ID: <19981108121339.B8886@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <c8f5344e.36450915@aol.com> References: <c8f5344e.36450915@aol.com>
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JChenXYin@aol.com wrote: > Can you believe it? I wouldn't beleive anything an AOL user told me. > Your boot.flp file cannot be copied into a floppy disk! Yes it does. Don't you think that if it didn't, someone other than an AOL user would have spotted it first? > Simply because the size is 1.44MB and a floppy disk is only 1.38MB. A raw floppy disk is 1474560 bytes. boot.flp is 1474560 bytes. Go figure. (I suspect a floppy disk may be 1.38MB after having a Microsoft filesystem put on it, which as the docs say, you don't need.) -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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