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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!super!rminnich
From: rminnich@super.org (Ronald G Minnich)
Subject: Re: bootable compaq 0.1 floppy image for testing
Message-ID: <1992Sep24.155358.21884@super.org>
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Organization: Supercomputing Research Center (Bowie, MD)
References: <1992Sep22.194638.26452@super.org> <1992Sep24.003122.25883@kirk.bu.oz.au>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 15:53:58 GMT
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In article <1992Sep24.003122.25883@kirk.bu.oz.au> bambi@bu.oz.au (David J. Hughes) writes:
>rminnich@super.org (Ronald G Minnich) writes:
>>This boots fine on my compaqs. It is a 0.1 kernel built from source, 
>>boot track from 0.0, the rest is 0.1. 
>Available from kirk.bu.oz.au in AUSTRALIA in the directory :-

you may also want to get:
dist.0.1.fs.tom

from met.super.org. 
this is a regular 0.1 dist.fs with patches as supplied by Tom Vijlbrief
to the first 1k of the bootblock. i.e. it has 0.1 boot blocks, 
not 0.0, and the kernel is the standard-issue GENERICISA. Works great.

thanks,
ron

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