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From: ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: booting from a 3.5" floppy
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In article <1993Mar2.232015.29012@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> ramzi@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Ramzi Al-Majid) writes:
)
)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 ?

It works with either size.
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Daniel Ortmann             NDSU Electrical Engineering
ortmann@plains.nodak.edu   Fargo, North Dakota