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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Disk1.img too big for floppy!
  • Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:07:04 +1200

Message from Steven
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peter (unixish) wrote:
>
> no one so far seems to want to address themselves to
> the fact that a dos formatted floppy does NOT have more
> than 1457664 bytes free space available because of the
> space used by the boot sector, the two file allocation
> tables and the root directory.

disk1.img is an image of the entire floppy. It includes
the boot sector, file allocation tables and root directory.
That's why it is 1474560 bytes. That's why it requires
a special program to rawrite it to the floppy.

Cheers,
Steven




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