RE: disk files too large to fit on floppy disks

["Jason Holland" <jphollan@earthlink.net>]

try this

# dd if=imagefile of=/dev/fd0

or whatever device your floppy is

Jason

>
> Hello Zach,
>
> Have you used rawrite or dd? The disk-files are disk-images, this means,
> they should be copied bit by bit to a disk, and not by some tools which
> use the file-system, which is on the disk.
> By writing the raw images, they should fit absolutely exactly on one disk.
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
> On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Zach Smith wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I tried copying the Debian base disk files to
> > actual floppy disks, and they are too large by
> > about 30kB. I had to reformat my copy disks
> > to use 81 tracks, which is risky. I am just now
> > continuing this process, getting disk write errors...
> > A better solution would be to recreate the files
> > in the smaller size.
> > Thanks
> > Zach
> >
> >
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