Re: disk files too large to fit on floppy disks

2000-10-16 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 of=

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,

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 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 Su

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 in