Re: floppy root.img sizes

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

On Oct 15, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Duane Cottle wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Sorry if this is the wrong list for this...
>
> I have been testing daily sarge floppy install images from
> http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/
> for a few weeks on OldWorld Macs.
>
> That is, until October 8. Since then, root.img seems to have swollen to
> a size bigger than I can dd onto a floppy.
>
> What's puzzling to me is that the sizes reported by any tool I use to
> download the images is less than the ls -l report by around 4.2KB.
>
> Example: in gFTP today's root.img shows 1468006 on the server and
> 1509557 on my hd.

Hi Duane,

I'm forwarding this to Sven Luther, who generates the floppy images in 
question.  I'm also forwarding this to the "debian-boot" list, where 
there are other folks besides Sven who may be able to help.

Enjoy!

Rick