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baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> > It worked for me every time on 4 different computers and floppy's.  Have
> > you cleaned your drives lately?
> >     
>
> below is my reply to sindi which fits both of your responses - except name
> changed ~>
>
> as you will see if you read what ive written in my earlier messages i have
> tried several machines with several disks and i really cannot see that a
> mixture of quality, clean, standard floppy drives as well as two LS120
> drives that are laser guided (of course) and able to write correctly to
> 120mb superdisks, could all fail to perform properly.. what i do find
> strange though is that no one so far seems to want to address themselves to
> the fact (only revealed to me after doing a google search - including the
> dreaded microsoft.com even..) 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. it would
> seem as though if you want access to the full 1474560 bytes then you cant
> have any of the above system related areas working!
>
> david, is that not so?
>
> cordialement - peter (unixish)
>
>   
When you use the suggested program to copy the image to the disk it does 
not use DOS format. This has been addressed in a previous response to 
your question. Please go back and READ again.

Larry