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Subject: Re: In what way you made root-disk(new problem)?
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On 1999-07-27 suburbanman@hotmail.com said:
   >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
If ROOT and USR are on the same disk, you should mount fd0c.  If you use
TINYROOT, I'm not sure if you can put USR or TINYUSR1 on the same disk.

   >Should I forget using the RAMDISKand try to make 1.2Mb (5.25)
   >floppies and 1.44Mb floppies???
I think with 640k memory it's recommended that you use the TINY disks and
no ramdisk.
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