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From: mmengel@cuuxb.ATT.COM (~XT6561110~Marc Mengel~C25~M27~6184~)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: yet another UNIXpc HD tale
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Date: 4 May 90 15:05:31 GMT
References: <WJC.90May3175246@hoswjc.ho5cad.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: mmengel@cuuxb.UUCP (Marc W. Mengel)
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In article <WJC.90May3175246@hoswjc.ho5cad.ATT.COM> wjc@hos1cad.att.com (Bill Carpenter) writes:
>If I do a boot from "floppy boot" and do the trick to get a shell
>prompt, I have no trouble mounting and unmounting the hard drive on
>/mnt.  In fact, when it is mounted, I can read and write whatever I
>please from it.  Yes, friends, I have the full power of UNIX at my
>disposal :-).

	In that case, you might try the "Hard Disk Boot" floppy; this
	boots & loads a kernel from the floppy disk, but uses the hard
	disk as the root filesystem; this way your floppy drive is avaliable
	for backups, etc.
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