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Nathan Lapointe wrote:
>
> The current problem I have is with Disk 2.  I cannot, for 
> some unexplicable reason, seem to put DISK2.TGZ on a 1.44Mb 
> Floppy Disk.

I assure you, it does fit.

> When i try it by copy/paste in Linux, it says there is not 
> enough room on the floppy.  

My copy of disk 2 has 32256 bytes free after disk2.tgz is copied
to it.

> This is after I just reformatted it.  

How are you formatting the floppy?  Disk 2 needs to have a standard
DOS format (most new floppies are DOS-formatted in the factory). 

> Can anybody help me with this?  I am so close to getting Linux working 
> on this ancient Laptop I can taste it . . .

I am sure we can get it working.  Don't give up.

Cheers,
Steven

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