Are you using "rawrite.exe" from Windows to write boot1.fs to your floppy?

If needed, get it from:

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/rawrite32/rawrite.exe

-Mike


On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 oinkfreebiker@att.net wrote:

> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 23:24:47 +0000
> From: oinkfreebiker@att.net
> To: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> Subject: boot1.fs too big for floppy???
>
> Howdy All,
>
> Was impatient for the Wasabi multi-CD set. Decided to
> try upgrading by myself from floppies.
>
> But when I tried to copy boot1.fs to a floppy, Win2K
> reported that it was too big for the floppy. I checked
> the floppy: empby. But only really 1.38MB of space.
>
> Thought it might be the new drive on the new box, or
> maybe Win2K. So I carried the floppy over to my Win98
> laptop, same report.
>
> So maybe, thought I, it is the disk: a Primaris. I
> fished out a Sony disk: same results on both the Win2K
> tower and the Win98 laptop.
>
> So it looks like boot1.fs just won't fit, because it is
> 1.40MB, and the 1.44MB disks are really 1.38MB. Is it
> just me and my machines???
>
> Regards,
>
> Gan
>
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