Date: 08 May 1998 15:17:26 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-lib@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libftpio ftpio.c Message-ID: <xzpg1ikuck9.fsf@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Fri, 08 May 1998 05:53:44 -0700" References: <20823.894632024@time.cdrom.com>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes: > > Anyway, can't we just make the first fragment slightly smaller than > > the others to make room for the .inf file? > Bah, don't make me special-case the first image, please - it would be a > hack and something extra for an already terminally confused user base > (which refuses to read "ABOUT.TXT") to have to know. :) OK, so if we're using FAT12-formatted floppies, we have 2880 sectors minus 1 boot sector minus (((2880 * 1.5) / 512) + 1) = 9 sectors for the FAT, minus a couple of sectors for the root directory and one for the .inf file, say we leave out the entire first track (18 sectors), which leaves us with 2862 sectors (or 1431 kB, or 1465344 bytes) for the tarball fragments. If you don't like "random" numbers you can round down to 1400 kB (2800 sectors) which should leave plenty of space - enough space, in fact, that it could fit on a floppy with a handfull of bad sectors. With the old scheme you could only fit ~1200 kB (five 240 kB fragments) on one floppy, so we're actually reducing the number of floppies required for an installation. -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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