From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 8 05:03:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA10294 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 05:03:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA10273 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 05:03:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.05 #1) id 0zcTit-0002K4-00; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 12:13:39 +0000 Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 12:13:39 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: JChenXYin@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (no subject) Message-ID: <19981108121339.B8886@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.12i (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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