it shouldn't matter as long as you are using rawrite to write the image to
the disk. so are you using 'rawrite' from the dosutils folder to create the
disk?
----- Original Message -----
From: Amit Khandelwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 3:13 PM
Subject: [newbie] boot disk
> 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?
>
> thanks for the help
>
>
