Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 19:48:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: gurney_j@efn.org (John-Mark Gurney) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: higher density diskettes Message-ID: <199509071748.TAA00266@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.91.950907070830.4252D-100000@nike.efn.org> from "John-Mark Gurney" at Sep 7, 95 07:13:38 am
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> > On Thu, 7 Sep 1995, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > > Microsoft has switched to using so called DMF format > > (Distribution Media Format - 1,716,224 bytes 1.63 MB) on > > diskettes for the WIN95 distrubution disks. > > > > I suggest to if not switch to that format to at least > > start discussing if that would be feasible or could be used > > for an even better install disk or fixit floppies. > > BTW I tried to mount one of the Win95 Install disks and > > got a kernel messages: > > > > blues# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0.1720 /mnt > > mountmsdosfs(): root directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in length > > blues# > > blues# ls /mnt > > win95_08.cab > > blues# umount /mnt > > I have a set of dos utils that allows you to format and use 1.72meg disks > under dos... and actually... one thing I really liked about the 2.0R > install is that you could specify /dev/fd0.1720... that would mean you > could get 7 parts instead of the usual 6... I also use 1.72meg disk to > store a lot of old downloaded software I might need... some of the disks > are even DD with the hole punched and I have had no problems with > them... > > If you guys like I could upload the program for dos some where... It has > a nice chart on what you can do, i.e. read the disk, with and without the > special program... like you can read a 1.48meg disk without any driver > loaded under dos... plus with it you can format your 5-1/2 floppies to > 1.48megs... and that would be quite nice to set as the new top limit :) > TTYL... Put it up in ftp://freefall.cdrom.com/incoming. > > John-Mark > > gurney_j@efn.org > Modem/FAX: (503) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) > > Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix) ^^^^^^^ large empires tend to <'hey what is this word in english for 'kollabieren''?> in time by themselves? > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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