Subject: Re: A boot disk
To: dkwok <dkwok@iware.com.au>
From: Julio Merino <juli@merino.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/13/2001 15:49:48
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:30:46PM +1000, dkwok wrote:
> >
> > Oh yes - just checked - one of mine is 378k, but compressed.. 750k
> uncompressed,
> > then again, fits nicely on a floppy
>
> Oh about floppy, Linux can format floppy to a capacity of 1.72 which is what
> I used for LRP. I have not found any similar tricks with NetBSD. Can it be
> done ?
Linux uses the superformat utlity... it might me in the pkgsrc :-P
Note that this tricks consist in formatting the disk with more sectors
per track.
HTH
>
> David Kwok