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From: colin@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning)
Subject: How can I get > 1.2Meg onto a 3.5in floppy?
Message-ID: <colin.715409127@marsh>
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Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 04:45:27 GMT
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Hi,
I make a bootable floppy by:
1) put 3.5 in disk in drive fd0
2) type "newfs /dev/rfd0a floppy3" ( and the switch to set the revs )
this only gives me 1.2Meg, even though newfs says it's 1.5Meg.
Now I'm *really* lost.
Please help.
Colin.
--
Colin [colin@cs.curtin.edu.au]
"Knowledge is not knowing all the answers, but knowing where to find them."
-anon.