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From: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais)
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Subject: Re: How to make Floppy bootable?
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Date: 25 Feb 91 23:56:02 GMT
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In article <4bmMDy600WB5ILCZFO@andrew.cmu.edu> ck32+@andrew.cmu.edu (Chris  
Wei-Tae Kim) writes:
> 
>     Hi! I just parted my hard drive. In the mean time, I want to use a
> floppy disk to boot from the computer. I know that there were some
> discussions about this regard, but I forget. Let say you made a floppy
> bootable, what kind of functions can you do? Do you get Unix shell?
> WorkSpace manager? or what? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks
> 
> -Chris,

If you had bootable floppies, it would be to use to rebuild the hard
disk, that is to say it would have minimal functionality.  It would
probably have the utilities needed to copy files, and not much more. 


Pascal Chesnais, Research Specialist, Electronic Publishing Group
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