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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sol.ccs.deakin.edu.au!drinnen From: drinnen@deakin.OZ.AU (Phil Shead) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD-09 installation.... Date: 9 Jan 1994 05:08:48 GMT Organization: Deakin University, Victoria, Australia Lines: 14 Message-ID: <2go3h0$9nn@sol.ccs.deakin.edu.au> References: <2gk4br$89l@sefl.satelnet.org> <2gke8o$2j4@cae.cad.gatech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: eros.ccs.deakin.edu.au In article <2gke8o$2j4@cae.cad.gatech.edu> gt6525c@prism.gatech.edu writes: >>to put the inst1-09.fs, inst2-09.fs, & kc-aha.fs files from my HD to the >>required floppies, I had a bit of a suprise: these files are all 1228800 >>bytes each, and a hd 51/4 disk only holds 1213952 bytes. > ^^^^^^^^^ >Yep...you need to use 3 1/2" disks instead, which hold 1,474,560 bytes. >That's what the distribution was set up for. That's strange they worked perfectly on my 5.25 disks, all 3 of them. I would suggest a problem with the disks because they definately worked with my disks. Have you actually tried it?