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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes:
> > Anyway, can't we just make the first fragment slightly smaller than
> > the others to make room for the .inf file?
> Bah, don't make me special-case the first image, please - it would be a
> hack and something extra for an already terminally confused user base
> (which refuses to read "ABOUT.TXT") to have to know. :)

OK, so if we're using FAT12-formatted floppies, we have 2880 sectors
minus 1 boot sector minus (((2880 * 1.5) / 512) + 1) = 9 sectors for
the FAT, minus a couple of sectors for the root directory and one for
the .inf file, say we leave out the entire first track (18 sectors),
which leaves us with 2862 sectors (or 1431 kB, or 1465344 bytes) for
the tarball fragments. If you don't like "random" numbers you can
round down to 1400 kB (2800 sectors) which should leave plenty of
space - enough space, in fact, that it could fit on a floppy with a
handfull of bad sectors. With the old scheme you could only fit ~1200
kB (five 240 kB fragments) on one floppy, so we're actually reducing
the number of floppies required for an installation.

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