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From: kuma <kuma@mathlab.sunysb.edu>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: bootimage
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On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Doug White wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, kuma wrote:
> 
> > > Make sure you are trying to write to a 1.44MB 3.5 inch floppy disk that is
> > > DOS formatted.
> 
> > I did have a new floppy disk formatted with dos, but fdimage did not even
> > check the disk, it just tells me the file is too large.
> 
> I should probably ask the obvious:  what is the filesize of the image?
> Did you download it in binary mode?
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
Right, i forgot to mention, the file(boot.flp) i downloaded is a bit more
than 1.44, it's 1.478Mb.  I was wondering how could that fit into a
single 1.44 floppy.  I used netscape to do "Save Link As" and saved the
file.

thanks for your patience.