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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kei.com!ub!csn!slate!mbarkah From: mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Ade Barkah) Subject: Re: FreeBsd 2.0 boot floppy Message-ID: <1994Dec3.221115.23140@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 1994 22:11:15 GMT References: <ciaran.2zvn@aldhfn.org> Organization: Colorado School of Mines X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Lines: 14 Skip Watson (ciaran@aldhfn.org) wrote: : I got in FreeBSD 2.0 via ftpmail and have been trying to create the : boot floppy and have found a problem. The image is *larger* than the disk. : The 1.44 meg floppy image is 1474560 in size. I don't have a 1.2 meg floppy : drive but it would apear to be academic since the size lists at 1228800, : larger than the disk. The sizes are not larger than the disk. Remember that 1 MB in this case is 1 048 576 bytes, not 1 000 000 bytes. Use the `rawrite' utility to transfer the boot floppy images to your disks. Regards, -Ade Barkah