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From: psfales@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Peter Fales)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3.5" floppy disk revisited on the UNIX pc ...
Keywords: 3.5" floppy, 720K, more space, backups
Message-ID: <629@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 1 May 89 21:29:20 GMT
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In article <695@icus.islp.ny.us>, lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
> I was able to put a floppy boot unix, floppy filesystem (all the necessary
> patching utilities [fsck, fsdb, etc..]) and the diagnostic program all
> on a 3.5" disk with a verbose loader.  Ahh, no more switching disks to
> boot a Floppy Unix!
> 
> If you want more details on the hardware aspects, I suggest you contact
> my hardware expert... Gil Kloepfer, Jr. (gil@limbic) 

Would you be willing to provide some more details on how to create a 
bootable floppy file system - either on two disks or on one.  A couple of
us here (hi Craig) have also put 720K drives on our systems, though I used
a 5.25" rather than a 3.5.


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