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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!wupost!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!rucs!rucs2!bmyers 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 Lines: 18 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