Split 1.6mb .img file?

[linuxisevolution]

I need to fit a 1.6mb floppy .img file into a single 1.4mb floppy, so I would like to know if I could split this across two disks? The laptop doesn't have a cdrom drive and it's a powerpc, so I'm trying a Debian network install...

[oldos2er]

"man split" should tell you what you need to know.

[puppywhacker]

It depends a bit on what you want to achieve.

with "split" you can split a file into equal blocks, but with "superformat" you can format a standard HD floppy to be bigger than the normal 1.44MB. If your floppydrives supports that you can fit up to 2MB

http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Format_Floppy.html

however, floppydisks have become obsolete by CDROM's USB-Sticks, Network cards, 1.6MB images shouldn't need too much trouble to get transfered.

goodluck

[Mark Phelps]

Have used HJ-Split to split and join files. Runs from Java so there is nothing to compile or actually install.

See the following link for info:

http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/