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From: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Bootable Floppy
Summary: yes, but dont do it alone
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Date: 12 Feb 91 01:45:50 GMT
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In article Bootable Floppy
 zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu (Andrew Zimmerman)
of : Stanford University writes:

Is it possible to boot from a 2.88 Meg floppy.  I red in the manual
that you can give the command bfd (or something) to boot from the
floppy.  If that is the case, how does one make a bootable 2.88 Meg
floppy disk?  

Yes it is possible to boot from floppies (note the plural
there).  However it is not so easy.  You will need to use
the /usr/etc/builddisk script, and the script provided
in /private/etc/BLD.bs...  If you really do trash your
disk I would suggest you work with your campus computer store
or the campus consultant to rebuild it...  Using builddisk script
is _not_ for the novice user...

The warnings on the buildscript for floppies is quite explicit
about it being in development with a lot of hardcoded stuff,
and kludges... I do NOT know if it works, I have NOT tried
this script.  I have NOT tried restoring from floppies.

pasc