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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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Subject: Re: Installing Floppies
To: pthomas@ascc.robins.af.mil (Patrick Thomas - CSC)
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 10:21:19 +0200 (MET DST)
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> 
> Hello!
> 
> Please excuse what you may consider my stupidity. I have downloaded the 
> floppies "files, boot.flp and root.flp". I have run rawrite on the root.flp file
> but I cannot seem to located any info on how the boot.flp file should be 
> formated. All the references about it say I should look in section 2.1 for
> info about it. I am unable to find anything about how this should be formatted
> in htat section. Any info would be very helpful.

You won't need the root.flp (for a normal installation).

Just run rawrite with the boot.flp and proceed with
booting from that floppy.

> 
> Thanx,
> pthomas@ascc.robins.af.mil
> 

--Chris Christoph P. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de