[plug] floppies bigger than 1.4Mb

[David Griffiths]

Mike,

>(Background: We use LFA for a firewall which has usually been on a 1680
>floppy.)
>
>Today I made some changes to the contents of the image and tried to
>remake to find that the image is now bigger than 1.6Mb. Looking at the
>scripts it clearly shows it using fdformat and mformat. Checking the man
>pages here refers you to /etc/fdprm. In the file I have I can't see any
>parameters bigger than 1680. Anyone know of others? Searching the net
>appears painfully slow from our site at the moment ...
>

Not sure if this is what you're after, but tomsrtb uses 1722 floppies which
gives you a tad more space. The command to make the device file is mknod
/dev/fd0u1722 b 2 60.

cheers,

Dave.