From owner-freebsd-small Tue Apr 3 20:35:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from rainmaker.dreamwvr.com (h24-71-211-181.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.211.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F1B137B720 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 20:35:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com) Received: from dreamwvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rainmaker.dreamwvr.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09CA82DF01; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:11:32 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.6-3 on OpenBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200104032239.AAA70589@info.iet.unipi.it> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 17:11:31 -0600 (MDT) From: dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com To: Luigi Rizzo Subject: Re: PicoBSD & 1720K floppies Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, Ferdinand Goldmann Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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