Thanks. I'll try diskcopy. Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network. Original Message From: Rugxulo Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 12:49 AM To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. Reply To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
Hi, On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip > "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes, > 2847 > 512 byte sectors. The image downloaded is 1474560 bytes, so the downloaded > image > would not fit here either. I downloaded the above (FD12FLOPPY.zip) and two of my own images (BARE_DOS and MetaDOS). All of them have the same size (1474560). A simple "file *.img" tells me that they all have 2880 sectors. I've written a few real floppies in recent years with some of these and had no obvious problems. The obvious tool to use, among a million others variations, would be DISKCOPY: http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/diskcopy.htm (Here's some alternatives.) https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/message/35297505/ > -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant > words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) So, just for completeness, (direct or indirect) links to a bunch of (Free)DOS floppy images are found below here: https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/message/35557316/ Keep in mind that a 1.44 MB floppy doesn't hold many files (e.g. a full FD "BASE" won't fit) and isn't actively used by most users anymore (even in FreeDOS circles). Heck, floppies aren't even made anymore, and most modern x86 machines lack the drives (although you can probably still buy a USB floppy drive like I did). Thus it's somewhat ignored in favor of newer, more popular media. So there is no "full" install via floppy, thus you must figure things out manually (for the most part). Networking (using a working packet driver) helps tremendously. Otherwise you're stuck with copying manually (sneakernet). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
