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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!ncar!uchinews!machine!chinet!randy 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 Lines: 19 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. -- I am created Shiva the Destroyer; Death, the shatterer of worlds! Who is this dog meat who stands before me now? That's the biz, sweetheart. Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us