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Date:      Mon, 2 Feb 1998 10:57:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jerome Jordan <1leader@bellsouth.net>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: BootFloppy Image
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980202105625.11259C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BD2DDC.E183ACC0@host-207-53-2-238.atl.bellsouth.net>

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On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Jerome Jordan wrote:

>     My question is regarding the download process of the floppy image
> directly from the link provided in the download instruction section of
> your web site.
>     When attempting this, I receive a message that the file I'm
> downloading is larger than the destination can handle (in this case I
> downloaded directly to the floppy in drive A:). I then downloaded the
> file to my hard disk and checked the size of the file. It shows as being
> 1.40mb but the floppy, when formatted fresh, can only hold 1.38mb. Is
> there something simple I'm missing?

Did you try writing the floppy with fdimage anyway?  You may have selected
to leave unformat information on the disk which will take space. fdimage
needs the disk formatted so it can determine it's size, after that it just
blows right over it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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