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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
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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..."