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From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
To: Valter Sorana <vsorana@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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Subject: Re: boot.flp is too big
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> Dear friends,
> 
> I tried to put the boot.flp file on my 1.44MB diskette, but it didn't
> work: it seems that boot.flp is about 1.7MB.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Does the floppy have any bad sectors? I have had this happen before, and
that was the problem. Even if it says it has no bad sectors, I would try
another disk.