Subject: Re: boot1.fs too big for floppy???
To: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/30/2001 18:29:47
> I'd suggest trying the NetBSD rawrite.exe - I have found that the linux

netbsd rawrite.exe???
linux version?

i only know DOS version of rawrite.

> version produces corrupted diskettes sometimes.   Also, make sure that
> your diskettes have 1,457,664 bytes of free disk space (that is, they have
> no errors) before you start; I find it easiest to dos format the floppies
> to be sure they format with no errors.
>
> -Mike
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 03:30:27 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Thomas Mueller <tmueller@bluegrass.net>
> > To: port-i386@netbsd.org
> > Subject: Re: boot1.fs too big for floppy???
> >
> > from Gan Starling:
> >
> > > Was impatient for the Wasabi multi-CD set. Decided to
> > > .....
>
>
> >I had no trouble RAWRITEing boot1.fs and boot2.fs to diskettes, my problem was
> >getting them to boot.  I used RAWRITE.EXE from a Linux CD, assuming this
> >RAWRITE.EXE is identical to the RAWRITE.EXE used for (Free, Net or Open)BSD.  I
> >was running under DR-DOS 7.03 with no MS-Windows.  I think there are separate
> >Win95/98/ME and NT/2000 versions of RAWRITE.
>