Re: disk files too large to fit on floppy disks

2000-10-17 Thread C. Falconer
No dude - the files that you have will be disk dump archives... essentially images of a disk To create the disks from dos/windows you'll need an executeable called rawrite2.exe, which you can download from the same place you got the images. Or if you have a unix box usedd if=imagename

disk files too large to fit on floppy disks

2000-10-16 Thread Zach Smith
Hello, I tried copying the Debian base disk files to actual floppy disks, and they are too large by about 30kB. I had to reformat my copy disks to use 81 tracks, which is risky. I am just now continuing this process, getting disk write errors... A better solution would be to recreate the files

Re: disk files too large to fit on floppy disks

2000-10-16 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Zach, Have you used rawrite or dd? The disk-files are disk-images, this means, they should be copied bit by bit to a disk, and not by some tools which use the file-system, which is on the disk. By writing the raw images, they should fit absolutely exactly on one disk. Regards, Daniel On

RE: disk files too large to fit on floppy disks

2000-10-16 Thread Jason Holland
try this # dd if=imagefile of=/dev/fd0 or whatever device your floppy is Jason Hello Zach, Have you used rawrite or dd? The disk-files are disk-images, this means, they should be copied bit by bit to a disk, and not by some tools which use the file-system, which is on the disk. By

Re: disk files too large to fit on floppy disks

2000-10-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
you can use split. you can also use tar -M linux To err is human, to forgive is divine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ To oink is porcine, to meow is feline.http://www.dirac.org/p._. To neigh is equine to howl is lupine,