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From: graeme@hart.actrix.gen.nz (Graeme Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Can I boot from 3.5" 1.44 MB disks?
Keywords: boot bootables 3.5" floppy 386BSD
Message-ID: <63-PCNews-120beta@hart.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 30 Jan 93 8:4:10 GMT
References: <1k6mavINNpsn@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
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kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies @ I.Physikalisches Institut RWTH-Aachen) once wrote....
>
>I tried - to no avail - to produce a booatble 3.5" floppy
>because one of the next system I will feed with 386bsd only has 3.5" drives.

I have used the files dist.fs and fixit.fs along with the dos program
rawrite.exe to produce bootable 3.5" high density 386BSD disks with no
problems.
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