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From: timborn@cbnewsd.att.com (timothy.d.born)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: PC Minix demo (questions)
Summary: demo formatted on 360K boots on 1.2M drive
Keywords: demo, 360k/1.2MB drives, 720k/1.44MB, help!
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.133927.12894@cbnewsd.att.com>
Date: 8 Mar 91 13:39:27 GMT
References: <1991Mar5.055145.7352@csus.edu> <1991Mar5.214921.1010@unixg.ubc.ca> <9229@star.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <9229@star.cs.vu.nl>, ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
> 
> Better yet, if possible, do everything on a machine with a 360K drive, and
> then try booting the 360K disk on the machine with only a 1.2M drive.  Then
> post a message to the net reporting the results.  My suspicion is that there
> is something wrong with the use of 360K diskettes in 1.2M drives, but I don't
> know what.
> 
> Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)

Formatted a 360K floppy on a 360K drive, wrote the demo to the floppy
using that same drive, booted off of a 1.2Mb drive and it worked just fine.

FYI

-tim
timborn@att.com