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- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Steve.Withers
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: se20boot
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:55:34 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.185534.13549@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <1992Sep8.185542.16029@mtu.edu>
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
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- In article <1992Sep8.185542.16029@mtu.edu> ajchuah@mtu.edu writes:
- >
- > I just got back from my vacation so i dunno if this
- > question has been asked. I just downloaded se20boot from
- > hobbes and i tried making the boot disk. I managed to get a
- > "minimal" boot disk without any problem. But when i tried
- > making a WPS or a PM boot disk, se20boot would just give me an
- > error which i believe is because it ran out of space on the floppy
- > disk. The command i typed was "se20boot type=wps". It would first
- > ask me for the Install disk and then for the target_disk. After
- > copying some files over, it would hang when it tried to copy
- > HPFS.IFS. When i checked, HPFS.IFS was about 120K and i had only
- > 30K(i think) in my floppy disk(1.44 Meg). I guess i have to tell
- > se20boot that i am installing into multiple disks rite? So how
- > do i go about doing this? Or is it not possible to make a boot
- > disk(WPS and PM) on floppies? Thanx in advance.
- >
-
- It might work this way.....if you had a PS/2, you would have a 2.88Mb floppy
- drive.....
-
- I'd be interested to know if this could be done to multiple 1.44Mb floppies.
-
- Steve
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