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What Happens when you try to boot them? any messages what so ever?
or does it boot the OS already installed?

if its the latter, than you probably need to enable floppy booting
inthe bios or something like that.

Jon
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Aaron Chu wrote:
> 
> This old computer I have is a 486sx33 (no math coprocessor) it's a HP vectra
> N2 (D3142A). I made all the boot disks from the CD provided with the book
> "operating sstems: design and implementation".
> 
> The floppy boots fine in my p2/400 machine, but not this one. Anyone got any
> ideas?
