From: Dennis Fenton <dwf...@gmail.com>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The new boot floppy has an fdconfig.sys
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<div><b>From: </b>Ralf Quint</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Friday, March 24, 2017
12:15 PM</div><div><b>To:
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[Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/24/2017 5:42 AM, Dennis Fenton
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:20170324124258.5115986.88516....@gmail.com"
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'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);
text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I
was just trying to simply copy it. I get an insufficient space
message. </div>
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That is to be expected.<br>
<br>
A disk image is exactly that, a sector by sector image of EVERY
sector on the disk. That includes those of the boot sector (includes
the BPB-BIOS Paramter Block), 14 sectors for the root directory and
18 sectors for the two copies of FAT12. Those 33 sectors leave on a
formatted 1.44MB floppy disk 2847 sectors (out of 2880 sectors of an
unformatted disk).<br>
<br>
To write a floppy disk IMAGE to a floppy, you need a program that
writes that image SECTOR FOR SECTOR back to the disk, not as a
single file as you have tried.<br>
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On Unix/Linux systems, the easiest way to achive that is to use the
"dd" command or WinRaWrite on a Windows system (or rawrite if you
have another DOS only system). I personally used for probably more
than two decades by now a Shareware program called WinImage, which
also does works nicely to create quickly images from floppy disks or
CD-ROMs...<br>
<br>
Ralf<br>
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