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From: bmyers@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu (B.Myers)
Subject: Re: 1.44Mb versions of dist.fs & fixit.fs?
Message-ID: <1992Sep17.193904.6184@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu>
Keywords: archive site
Organization: Radford University
References: <1992Sep16.033608.25468@citec.oz.au> <colin.716622347@marsh>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 92 19:39:04 GMT
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In article <colin.716622347@marsh> colin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning) writes:
>sgccseh@citec.oz.au (Steve Hocking) writes:
>
>
>>	I'm after a 1.44mb version of dist.fs, as I have a machine here,
>>which for political reasons, I cannot swap around the floppy drives on.
>>Anybody have an ftp site?
>
>Just rawrite the 1.2 Meg files to 1.44.  It works, but you lose .2 Meg, but who
>cares, it's only a floppy ...
>
Yes.. AND you must, in the BIOS tell the computer the 1.44 is a 1.2 so
that you can boot the 3.5 disk. I had to dop this because my A drive is
a 3.5. I didn't want to get in to it and possibly do something I shouldn't
(void my warranty on the computer.)

bmyers@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu