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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cyber2.cyberstore.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsserver.sfu.ca!sfu.ca!vanepp From: vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp) Subject: Re: NetBSD-09 installation.... Message-ID: <vanepp.757994125@sfu.ca> Sender: news@sfu.ca Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada References: <2gk4br$89l@sefl.satelnet.org> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 01:55:25 GMT Lines: 27 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? >Thanks, >Phil Carson Where are you taking the size of the floppy from? If it is DOS, then there is no problem, because the FATs etc have eaten some of the sectors on the disk. One thing to note is that you need good floppies, i.e. DOS format should not report any bad sectors. If that is the case, the rawrite (or rawrite3 if you are using FreeBSD) will write over the entire disk (and fit because there are that many physical sectors on the disk even though DOS reports less free space). Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada