From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 3 16:52:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4265837B512; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 16:52:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12cGKY-0001wh-00; Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:32:26 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12cGKY-000KDa-00; Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:32:26 +0100 Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 00:32:26 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Michael Weichert Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Floppies... Message-ID: <20000404003226.L85754@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <38E949C8.CEC0F007@bmts.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38E949C8.CEC0F007@bmts.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Weichert wrote: > Hey there. I am having trouble putting the boot files on floppies, as > they are 1.44MB of size and the actual size of a floppy is 1.38MB. The actual size of a floppy is 1440KB (1440*1024 bytes), which is not 1.38MB by any normal definition of MB. I would guess you're trying to copy it to a DOS formatted floppy rather than doing an image copy with dd(1) or a similar program. I'm not sure why you sent this to -doc either, -questions would probably seem more appropriate. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message