Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

2017-03-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Felix Miata 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

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

2017-03-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
It is possible to format a floppy a bit over size. Most drives will accommodate 2 to 4 extra tracks. Depending on the drive and the controller it's possible to alter the number of sectors per track, but all tracks must have the same number of sectors. Typically, altering the number of sectors

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

2017-03-23 Thread perditionc
On Mar 23, 2017 9:32 PM, "Dennis Fenton" wrote: After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for ... To my dismay I found that the boot disk image is too big to fit on a 1.44 floppy. ... What program are you using to write the image to your floppy? Boot

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

2017-03-23 Thread Felix Miata
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. -- "The wise are known for

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a dis

2017-03-23 Thread Dennis Fenton
Yes that is the file. I also found it on the FreeDOS download page. I'm not familiar with grub4dos. I'll look into it. Dennis Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network.   Original Message   From: Thomas Mueller Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:19 PM To:

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

2017-03-23 Thread Dennis Fenton
No bad sectors. I tried two different freshly formatted disks and ran scandisk on them just to be sure. Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network.   Original Message   From: Felix Miata Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:30 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Reply To:

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

2017-03-23 Thread Felix Miata
Dennis Fenton composed on 2017-03-23 20:32 (UTC-0500): > After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for > MS-DOS 6.22 on an old 486 I'm playing with. > I downloaded and burned to CD the iso. I also downloaded the boot > floppy disk image because the old 486 will not boot

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a dis

2017-03-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Dennis Fenton: > After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for > MS-DOS 6.22 on an old 486 I'm playing with. > I downloaded and burned to CD the iso. I also downloaded the boot > floppy disk image because the old 486 will not boot from the external > SCSI CD drive. >

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

2017-03-23 Thread Dennis Fenton
Read what I wrote. I burned the iso to a CD. I also downloaded the floppy img. It doesn't fit! So my first interaction on this forum is from someone who treats me like a dummy. Perhaps another reason to say to Hell with FreeDOS. Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network.  

[Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

2017-03-23 Thread Dennis Fenton
After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for MS-DOS 6.22 on an old 486 I'm playing with. I downloaded and burned to CD the iso. I also downloaded the boot floppy disk image because the old 486 will not boot from the external SCSI CD drive. To my dismay I found that the