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Date:      Thu, 9 Jul 1998 12:15:45 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com>
To:        peter82@geocities.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.5 floppy
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980709121447.29972K-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980708110235.1813A-100000@cygnus.rush.net>

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And don't try to just copy the file onto the floppy.  You use
fdimage.exe or rawrite.exe to write the contents of boot.flp to the
disk.

On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, P Lynch wrote:

> make sure you downloaded the floppy disk in binary format, not ascii
> 
> ___________________________________________________________________________
> 
> Pat Lynch						lynch@rush.net
> Systems Administrator					Rush Networking
> ___________________________________________________________________________
> 
> On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 peter82@geocities.com wrote:
> 
> > I can't get a floppy to hold 1474560 bytes, I've tried formatting them to the fullest, but it still only holds 1457664 bytes.
> > I don't know why it's doing this... help!
> > 
> > -Waiting anxiously
> > 
> 
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