Lehle Wolf <Wolf.Lehle@med.siemens.de> writes:
> While trying to put the file boot.fs (size: 1,479,800) to a DOS-floppy
> (size: 1,457,664) using rawrite.exe the floppy controller complaint.

uh...

ftp'ing to ftp.netbsd.org and looking in
pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4/i386/installation/floppies i see:

ftp> ls -l\ boot*
227 Entering Passive Mode (204,152,184,75,212,229)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
-rw-rw-r--  1 1084  netbsd  1228800 May  8 18:42 boot-tiny.fs
-rw-rw-r--  1 1084  netbsd  1044258 May  8 18:42 boot-tiny.fs.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 1084  netbsd  1474560 May 11 14:54 boot-unstr1.fs
-rw-r--r--  1 1084  netbsd  1445926 May 11 14:56 boot-unstr1.fs.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 1084  netbsd    57344 May 11 14:54 boot-unstr2.fs
-rw-r--r--  1 1084  netbsd    39877 May 11 14:56 boot-unstr2.fs.gz
-rw-rw-r--  1 1084  netbsd  1474560 May  8 18:42 boot.fs
-rw-rw-r--  1 1084  netbsd  1415104 May  8 18:42 boot.fs.gz
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> get boot.fs.gz |"gzip -dc | wc"
local: |gzip -dc | wc remote: boot.fs.gz
227 Entering Passive Mode (204,152,184,75,212,214)
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'boot.fs.gz' (1415104 bytes).
 5240 31962 1474560 
226 Transfer complete.
1415104 bytes received in 01:14 (18.60 KB/s)

That's a different size than the boot.fs that you seem to have.

Did you download it to the windows box in binary mode?  (AFAIK, if you
use the windows DOS shell 'ftp' program, it defaults to ASCII mode...)




cgd
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