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From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Subject: Re: 1.44Mb versions of dist.fs & fixit.fs?
Message-ID: <But5D7.F7C@chinet.chi.il.us>
Keywords: archive site
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
References: <1992Sep16.033608.25468@citec.oz.au> <colin.716622347@marsh> <1992Sep17.193904.6184@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1992 04:19:54 GMT
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In article <1992Sep17.193904.6184@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu> bmyers@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu (B.Myers) writes:
>>Just rawrite the 1.2 Meg files to 1.44.  It works, but you lose .2 Meg, but who
>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. 

	This is incorrect.  It is real hard to tell a laptop with a 
	3.5 inch drive that you have a 5 incher, however the
	rawrit (rawrited?) 1.44 boots just fine.  And on many
	other 3.5 inch floppy machines also.
	I kinda hope the 5.25 inch disk goest the way of the 8 inch.
	Still got boxes of those (carefully double hole punched to
	use both sides) with CBBS source from 1978.

-- 
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	Who is this dog meat who stands before me now?
	That's the biz, sweetheart.
Randy Suess					 randy@chinet.chi.il.us