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- From: gkt@iitmax.iit.edu (George Thiruvathukal)
- Subject: Re: Rootimage 97-1
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.160343.12570@iitmax.iit.edu>
- Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology / Academic Computing Center
- References: <714872665.F00266@remote.halcyon.com> <1992Aug27.030956.23865@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 16:03:43 GMT
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- jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) writes:
- > Mike.Bloxham@f22.n121.z1.fidonet.org (Mike Bloxham) writes:
- [...]
- > >rootimage file is larger than a 1.2mb 5.25" floppy. Rawrite errors
- > >after it finishes track 79. Is this a problem? I could actually load
- > >the diskette though! Not sure if it is complete.
-
- > rootimage-0.97.1 is *exactly* 1200KB, and it fits on a HD 5.25" disk
- > perfectly, in my experience.
- >
- > I don't know why rawrite is giving any errors, unless there are
- > problems with the disk you wrote the image too. Anyone else have any
- > ideas or similar problems?
-
- In my experience rawrite stops writing tracks once EOF is reached for the
- raw file. If the file were 1200KB, and KB==1000, then the number of bytes
- would be less than available on a 1.2MB diskette, where MB=1024*1024. Was
- an "error" message actually displayed?
-
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