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From: drinnen@deakin.OZ.AU (Phil Shead)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD-09 installation....
Date: 9 Jan 1994 05:08:48 GMT
Organization: Deakin University, Victoria, Australia
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In article <2gke8o$2j4@cae.cad.gatech.edu> gt6525c@prism.gatech.edu writes:
>>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.
>		      ^^^^^^^^^


>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.

 That's strange they worked perfectly on my 5.25 disks, all 3 of them.
I would suggest  a problem with the disks because they definately worked
with my disks. Have you actually tried it?