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Date:      Thu, 21 Aug 1997 23:11:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
Subject:   Re: Final request for help with release. (DPT boot floppy)
Message-ID:  <XFMail.970821231149.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
In-Reply-To: <8233.872210627@time.cdrom.com>

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Hi "Jordan K. Hubbard";  On 22-Aug-97 you wrote: 
> > So I can build a working 1.2.1 kernel, and I can get it on the disk,
> > but
> > fixit won't work so I can copy the kernel off the floppy to the drive.
> > Or ftp it, or any other way that I can think of.
>  
>  And I assume that you've already contemplated physically moving the
>  drive to another machine for the xfer?

Not a good idea, unless the othe machine is a DPT based one.  There are
some differences between DPT initialized disks and others.  Something to do
with the RAID information.  I already bitched DPT about it in 1985-1986 and
got nowhere.  You are welcome to try again :-)

Simon




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