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Subject: Re: In what way you made root-disk(new problem)?
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thanks for the info about the floppies, I read somewere that they should be
720Mb 3.5 floppies?? I used 1.44Mb and It booted my TINYROOT floppy. I have
640K memory so I pressed Esc and typed

processor=86
hd-bios
rootdev=bootdev
save
boot

then I was asked to mount the next floppy, which I am a assuming is USR or
TINYUSR1, I said fd0 was the device to mount. I got an error when I did
that. I tried several other combinations, ie. using USR and ROOT on the same
1.44Mb 3.5. but I continued to get errors. The error messages said "device
busy", "can't mount try to mount something else", I had a few other but they
were because of bad disks. the messages are not exact written above, I have
the computer apart while I add a 5.25 drive so I can't give you the exact
errors right now.

Should I forget using the RAMDISKand try to make 1.2Mb (5.25) floppies and
1.44Mb floppies???

thanks in advance.

Mark Moesker
suburbanman@hotmail.com

Mark Zhitomirski <opponet@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:7nkj60$9rp$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> probably you used smth. like DOS-copy to make ROOT-disk rather then
> recommended FDVOL or RAWRITE.
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