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Re: Corrupt floppy image in archive



Hans-Joachim Baader schrieb am Donnerstag, dem 19. März 2009:

> I managed to find an old Woody DVD where the image is also incorrect.
> It must be wrong, since I tried the installation and failed (but definitely
> no disk read error). Either it was corrupt from the beginning, or has been
> corrupted shortly after the release.
> 
> > 	o woody?  seriously?  That's oldoldoldstable.  We can't really
> > 	  support that.
> 
> I know. But I thought someone might be interested to fix it.
> 
> I still have virtual machines with Woody. Is it hard to recreate the
> root.bin image oneself? I looked at the root.bin in images-1.44, but
> I coudn't get it small enough for 1.2 MB floppies.

1.2MB is 5.25".  The 3.5" disks were either 720k (DD) or 1.44MB (HD).

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