On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- On 13 Feb, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "slink base Disk Files Too Large?" > > I recently tried to copy the slink base disk downloads > > (the ones for 1.44M floppies) to 1.44M floppies, but the floppie > > images were too large. ...anyone else have this problem or know > > what might have caused it? > > The files are disk images so they can not be copied to the disk. You > have to use rawrite2(on dos) or dd(on linux) to put them on the disk. > See the install documentation in the directory where you found the > images.
If you try to mcopy the file to an msdos floppy, or try to cp the file to a mounted floppy, clearly the disk image will be too large. You might try this: cp disk_image_name /dev/fd0 I have used this to create install disks in the past. Has something changed? --David Debian GNU/Linux Because reboots are for hardware upgrades.