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Subject: Re: Help! I blew away init
To: marc@cmc.eng.comsat.com (MARC Giannoni)
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 11:42:49 -0700 (PDT)
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> By this point the floppy will be filling up, possably overfull.  The
> question here is how can we allow for a floppy disk change following
> bootup and before init does a chroot to the floppy?  I have seen boot
> disks do this, they will pause and request that a root floppy be placed in
> the drive.  This two disk alternative would provide much more space.
> 
a quick method is to boot -a or -c
and change  the floppy when it stops to ask you to do things..