Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 10:54:34 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, john@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: 2.2.7 & boot.flp Message-ID: <199809231754.KAA05950@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199809231634.JAA15519@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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>Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:34:08 -0700 (PDT) >From: john@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (John Morgan Salomon) >I assume you guys are already aware of this, but just in case, I wanted to >point out that on all the ftp sites serving freebsd 2.2.7, >/2.2.7-RELEASE/floppies/boot.flp seems to be larger (1.47mb) than most >1.44 mb floppies...am I seriously missing something or is that intentional? I think perhaps there may be a slight misunderstanding: shrimp[62]% ls -l /ftp/pub/unix/FreeBSD/2.2.7-RELEASE/floppies/boot.flp -rw-r--r-- 1 root eng 1474560 Jul 23 22:12 /ftp/pub/unix/FreeBSD/2.2.7-RELEASE/floppies/boot.flp shrimp[63]% expr 1474560 / 1024 1440 And using (in my case) "dd bs=720k of=/dev/rfd0c" to read the file copies it with precisely 2 blocks, as expected. Perhaps you're trying to copy it to some sort of filesystem on the floppy, as if "boot.flp" were intended to be a "file" in that filesystem? It's not; it's an image of the entire floppy. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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