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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>
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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
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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