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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
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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