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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!cae.cad.gatech.edu!cae.cad.gatech.edu!not-for-mail From: dgal@cad.gatech.edu (Damon Gallaty) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD-09 installation.... Date: 7 Jan 1994 14:47:36 -0500 Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 19 Message-ID: <2gke8o$2j4@cae.cad.gatech.edu> References: <2gk4br$89l@sefl.satelnet.org> Reply-To: gt6525c@prism.gatech.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: cae.cad.gatech.edu phcarson@satelnet.org (Phil Carson) writes: >I have just finished FTP'ing about 20 megs, then D/L'ing them from my >dial-up internet host the full didtribution st of NetBSD-09. When I went >to put the inst1-09.fs, inst2-09.fs, & kc-aha.fs files from my HD to the >required floppies, I had a bit of a suprise: these files are all 1228800 >bytes each, and a hd 51/4 disk only holds 1213952 bytes. ^^^^^^^^^ >Am I doing something wrong Here? Should the installation files/disks be >split up somehow? Yep...you need to use 3 1/2" disks instead, which hold 1,474,560 bytes. That's what the distribution was set up for. -- Damon Gallaty gt6525c@prism.gatech.edu "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men..."