> i'm tryin gto install linux for teh first time and i have the image-ISO
> file stored on a CD-R that i burned. i tried to download the boot.img
> file to stick on a floppy disk, but the image file is 1.4MB and every
> disk that i have formatted and tried comes to 1.38MB--there is some
> whacked file that is taking up the space, but i can't delete it. i have
> tried 10 disks.. does anyone know how i can circumvent this problem. in
> addition, once/if i get the boot.img file, what do i do next?
The disk may have a capacity of 1.4MB, but with the DOS/Windows
formatting only 1.38MB is available to you. You can't just copy the
file to the disk. You have to rawrite it to the disk (so that the image
completely overwrites everything already on the disk--including the
FAT).
