higher format densities than 1.44MB

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Subject: higher format densities than 1.44MB
From: "debian" <Glenn.McGrath@jcu.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 02:43:53 +1000
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Regarding boot floppy size

So you all realise that a 1.44MB is actually 2.0MB unformated.
By using exotic formats you can have upto 1.92MB of usable space.

1.72MB works well, why limit the disk size 1.44MB ?

Theres some good documents at the Linux Router Project on this info

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References:
- initrd loading of boot-modules
  - From: Rene Mayrhofer <rene.mayrhofer@vianova.at>
- Re: initrd loading of boot-modules
  - From: Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>
- An initrd proposal
  - From: Nils Rennebarth <nils@ipe.uni-stuttgart.de>

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