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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 23 Nov 96 04:21:14 PST."
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Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 09:55:07 PST
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <11721.848751674@critter.tfs.com> you write:
>I belive you can get away with it if you use the 2.2-ALPHA boot
>floppy, and use the wizard mode in the fdisk menu.

Well, after using fdisk a couple of times from the fixit floppy, I *did*
get it to boot and it does seem to be ok (so far...).  Presumably you could
do the same from the boot floppy, I just wasn't thinking that straight at
the time...  ("aieeeeee!  Why won't it boot!?!?!" =)

  Bill