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From: bernstei@beastie.cs.und.ac.za (Simon Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Booting NetBSD from 1.44MB 3.5" disks
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Date: 16 May 93 14:11:46 GMT
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Karl Denninger (karl@genesis.MCS.COM) wrote:
: Has anyone managed to make this work (booting 1.44MB 3.5" diskettes)? I
: don't HAVE a 5.25" disk drive in my machines, and the system I want to load
: this on doesn't have a place for it in any case!
We had absolutely no trouble getting this to work ! Not a squeak, not a
glitch, nothing !!!
: Why, why, why does this explode?
Are you sure your disks are the most recent one available ? Or try some new
diskettes ?
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