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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.indirect.com!wes From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) Subject: Re: how to get netbsd floppies on 1.44" Message-ID: <D0s43I.7nz@indirect.com> Sender: usenet@indirect.com (System Operator) Organization: the Briney (notso) Deep Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 02:26:05 GMT References: <3c43r2$m6v@charybda.sovam.com> <1994Dec9.095657.14827@uts.amdahl.com> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2.1 [BP] PL2.1] Lines: 15 In article <3c43r2$m6v@charybda.sovam.com> edgar@sovam.com (Edgar Ter-Danieliantz) asked: > I have machine with only 1.44" diskette drive, how I can convert > NetBSD 1.0 distribution disks to 1.44"? Alistair G. Crooks (agc@uts.amdahl.com) replied: : The floppy images work fine when written to a 1.44" disc. : e.g. : dd if=floppy_image of=/dev/rfd0a bs=16k If these are 1.44M floppy disks, try using a buffer size of 18k (bs=18k), since that is the size of one track on the disk. Wes Peters