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From: laurie@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (60648000)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: minor dev nums, bootable disks
Keywords: minor device number boot disk
Message-ID: <9087@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 12 Sep 89 14:25:22 GMT
References: <774@n3dmc.UU.NET>
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Reply-To: laurie@ucscb.UCSC.EDU Ken Chapin
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; CATS
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In article <774@n3dmc.UU.NET> brian@n3dmc.UU.NET (Brian Lloyd) writes:
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>For uPort SysV/AT 2.4 (286).
>2.  How do I create a bootable floppy disk for SysV/AT v2.4?
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>I have the v2.4 distribution on 1.2Mb 5" floppies but I want to convert to
>1.44 Mb mini floppies.

You won't be able to do this unless you want to write your own boot code. The
boot code that uport uses has 5.25" geometry hard wired into it. There is also
code in the kernel startup routine that looks at the primary 5.25" high density
floppy only if there is no hard disk to boot from. Both of these would have to
be changed to make a 3.5" boot disk. I did it for the uport 3.0e.1 386 
distribution.

-Ken Chapin
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