Update: Putting more than 1.45MB on a floppy disk

From: devnull@adc.idt.com
Date: Mon Nov 11 2002 - 14:36:10 EST

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I got a few replies.

Which asked me to.

1. Use a block size of 80.
2. Use a blocking factor that is a multiple of 36.

These didnt work.

Any other ideas will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Use "superformat" under Linux.

> Dear Managers,

>Is there a way to put more than 1.45Mb on a 3.5" floppy using a Sparc
>Machine running Solaris 8.

>I need to put 1474560 bytes onto a floppy.

>I use dd to copy the file
>dd if=TheFile of=/floppy/unnamed_floppy/TheFile bs=512

>and i can fit in only 1457152 bytes.

>Need these as boot floppies.

>Any help will be appreciated.

/dev/null

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