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From: phg@cs.brown.edu (Peter H. Golde)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Booting OS/2 from floppy
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Date: 12 Mar 90 05:02:32 GMT
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In article <16603@well.sf.ca.us> feustel@well.sf.ca.us (David Alan Feustel) writes:
>A major problem that I have with switching to HPFS is that if OS/2
>can't boot then I can't access the files within HPFS. I would gladly
>switch to HPFS if I could boot OS/2 from a floppy and access the HPFS
>files.

As has been mentioned here several times, you can boot from a floppy by
using your installation diskette, and pressing Esc at the first screen.
HPFS is loaded, and you can muck with any of the files on your fixed
disk all you want.
--Peter Golde