Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 18:26:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Derrick Baumer <bduk@earthlink.net> To: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Cc: mweichert@bmts.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppies... Message-ID: <200004040126.SAA01831@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <14569.8725.833255.828831@hip186.ch.intel.com> (message from John Reynolds~ on Mon, 3 Apr 2000 15:58:29 -0700 (MST))
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> From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>
>
> [ copying to -questions as this was originally sent to -doc ]
>
> [ On Monday, April 3, Michael Weichert wrote: ]
> > Hey there. I am having trouble putting the boot files on floppies, as
> > they are 1.44MB of size and the actual size of a floppy is 1.38MB.
> >
> > Please email me if you can help me.
> > Thanks.
> > Mike Weichert
> >
>
> last time I checked, my floppies were 1.44Mb. I just did:
>
> dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rfd0
>
> and it went off without a hitch. Are you getting specific errors when trying
> to make floppies that you can share? If so, then we can probably help out.
>
> Please tell us how you were trying to make the boot floppies.
I seem to recall Windows 95 thinking 1.44 meg floppies were 1.38
megs. You need to use the disk-writing utility specifically for
writing those images to disks. (and, like an idiot, I don't know what
that utiltity is called, but you can get it at the same place you got
the images from). Re-read the file INSTALL.TXT.
--
Derrick Baumer - Black Duck Software
<bduk@earthlink.net>
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