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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!caen!umeecs!quip.eecs.umich.edu!dmuntz From: dmuntz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Daniel A Muntz) Subject: Re: 1.44Mb versions of dist.fs & fixit.fs? Message-ID: <1992Sep17.200047.25747@zip.eecs.umich.edu> Keywords: archive site Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News) Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor References: <1992Sep16.033608.25468@citec.oz.au> <colin.716622347@marsh> <1992Sep17.193904.6184@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1992 20:00:47 GMT Lines: 15 In article <1992Sep17.193904.6184@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu> bmyers@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu (B.Myers) writes: >In article <colin.716622347@marsh> colin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning) writes: >>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.) This has not been true for any of the several systems I've booted from the 1.2M dist.fs written to a 1.44M diskette. -Dan