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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD-09 installation....
Date: 07 Jan 1994 20:59:25 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: phcarson@satelnet.org's message of 7 Jan 1994 11:58:35 -0500


In article <2gk4br$89l@sefl.satelnet.org> phcarson@satelnet.org (Phil
Carson) writes:

   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.

No, a 5.25" disk holds 2*15*80*512 == 1228800 bytes, without DOS data
structures.  You need to use the RAWRITE.EXE program to copy the files
to diskettes.

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- Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu
  a straight dressing, mentally unchallenged, vertically unchallenged, ...,
  English-American of no color, no religion, and a strong mating preference
  for people of gender.