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Subject: Re: fdimage and LS120 drive
In-Reply-To: <3797C520.731B48D7@green-mfg.com> from Joe Konecny at "Jul 22, 99 09:28:00 pm"
To: jkonecn@green-mfg.com (Joe Konecny)
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 07:19:01 -0500 (CDT)
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Didn't it used to say that you can't you rawrite in Windows
mode and had to boot into DOS? That may not be true with 
fdimage. 

Personally, I tend to use dd on anything I can (Sun, FreeBSD, 
etc), that's already running.


In a previous message, Joe Konecny said:
> No.  I didn't miss the point.  I'm creating the floppies
> for a machine that only has a 1.44M drive.
> 
> "Crist J. Clark" wrote:
> > 
> > Joe Konecny wrote,
> > > I just tried to create install disks using fdimage and
> > > an LS-120 drive.  I'm doing this with and NT machine
> > > by typing "fdimage kern.flp a:" and it quits saying
> > > "a: - Not a floppy drive"  Is there any way to use
> > > the LS-120 drive?
> > 
> > Uh, you kinda missed the whole point there. :)
> > 
> > The kern.flp and the mfsroot.flp cover the old fashioned 2 MB
> > floppies. The boot.flp, which fits on _one_ LS-120 disk, is for people
> > like you.
> > 
> > Read the README.TXT in the directory with the floppy images. ;)
> > --
> > Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com
> > 
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