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- From: Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Not booting from floppy (was: SHIFTRUN)
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 22:38:05 GMT
- Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
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- Message-ID: <Gary.Woodman.896.724286285@anu.edu.au>
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- In article <1992Dec9.180651.8661@networx.com> mikel@networx.com (Mike Lempriere) writes:
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- >Booting from floppy over-and-over-and-over-and-over while messing with
- >those damn Trident drivers wasted (I kid you not) several hours all told
- >waiting for that damn slow floppy, and swapping disks. (I had to boot
- >from floppy several dozen times over several weeks before I figured out
- >that Selective Install had buggered a device= statement in my config.sys).
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- The more I think of it, the more I like a solution other than a glacial
- floppy that I first saw proposed here by Joe Emenaker: install Boot Manager,
- install whatever other partitions you like, and install a 2Mb partition as
- an OS/2 repair tool: it wouldn't need any more space than a floppy (although
- you could make it any size you desired), could support HPFS maintenance, and
- would doubtless boot in a twinkle.
-
- I have Joe's instructions archived if anyone's interested. If ever I get a
- chance to reformat and reinstall, I'll be giving this a go!
-
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- Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au This post made from 100% recycled electrons.
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