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From: ramzi@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Ramzi Al-Majid)
Subject: booting from a 3.5" floppy
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is it possible to boot from a 3.5" floppy ? 

the dist.fs is about 1.2MB and looks like it is meant to be
for the 5.25" floppy. 

so can one raw-write the dist.fs file to the 3.5" and boot
from it ?

thanks

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