Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 17:11:31 -0600 (MDT) From: dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, Ferdinand Goldmann <ferdl@atommuell.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at> Subject: Re: PicoBSD & 1720K floppies Message-ID: <XFMail.20010403171131.dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com> In-Reply-To: <200104032239.AAA70589@info.iet.unipi.it>
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have you tried superformat? this will take it to 17xx without too much trouble AFAIK.. On 03-Apr-2001 Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> Has anyone managed to get PicoBSD to boot from larger floppy disks >> than 1440K? > > it's a bios issue, you can hope to make the 1480 format work (it > did for me, not with vmware though) but none of the machines i have > tried is able to handle 21 sectors per track. This is the source > of the error you are seeing, and there is no straightforward > workaround implemented at the moemnt. > > cheers > luigi > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message -- ---------------------------------------- E-Mail: dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com Date: 03-Apr-2001 Time: 17:10:49 Open Source Opens Minds. - DREAMWVR.COM ---------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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