Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:43:21 -0600 From: dreamwvr <dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com> To: shansen@earthlink.net, "Skip Hansen" <shansen@earthlink.net>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: oversized floppies for picobsd? Message-ID: <00062817470415.00531@tyr.dreamwvr.com> In-Reply-To: <395A1DCC.6061.1F9EEE5@localhost> References: <395A1DCC.6061.1F9EEE5@localhost>
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Hi, yes you are right that oversize floppies do burn out faster but they do work for some time and well use superformat or the mformat of format or whatever command then to format the way you want. Then use syslinux or equivalent to boot the floppy and use picobsd as the system. That is the way i would have liked to have done it. Then again i tried after getting used to LRP. Where as well am offering suggestions here that may or may not work but are worth the try IMHO. Best Regards, fred On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Skip Hansen wrote: > Arg ! Funky disk formats is one of the many reasons I run PicoBSD instead > of the Linux router project/fireplug stuff. The Linux high capacity floppy > format used by the fireplug project assumed they can get away with 83 > cylinders on a floppy. My floppy drive didn't like that and neither the new > drive I bought before I figured out what they were doing. The format program > didn't even attempt to verify that the head actually moved when stepping from > cylinder 82 to 83 ! > > Floppies are unreliable enough when used as designed. I would rather have > something that never works that something flaky. > > > Has anyone tried using "oversized" 1.722M floppy formats? There's a > > single-disk linux that does this: > > > > http://www.toms.net/rb/ > > > > It seemed to work fine on the several machines I tried, getting 20% more > > space on the floppy might be worth checking out... > > > > - Mike > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message -- Reuters, London, February 29, 1998: Scientists have announced discovering a meteorite which will strike the earth in March, 2028. Millions of UNIX coders expressed relief for being spared the UNIX epoch "crisis" of 2038. _______________________________________________________________________ ************** DREAMWVR.COM - TOTAL INTERNET SERVICES **************** TOTAL DESIGN - DEVELOPMENT - INTEGRATION - SECURITY - Click Here.. <http://www.dreamwvr.com/services/MAX_SEC.html>; DREAMWVR.COM - The Console of Many... 90 Topics Covered <http://www.dreamwvr.com/dynamicduo.html>; <mailto:dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com>; ->> LINUX-MANDRAKE Solution Provider and North American Distributor<<- PRODUCT OF THE YEAR! <http://www.dreamwvr.com/mandrake/mandrake-main.html>; "===0 PGP Key Available *************** "As Unique as the Company You Keep."***************** "If anyone speaks from DREAMWVR.COM its certainly not me:-)" ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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