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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:04:18 -0700
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Otter <otterr@telocity.com>
Cc: Richard Lemieux <re_lemieux@hotmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: trouble
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* Otter <otterr@telocity.com> [001026 17:57] wrote:
> Richard,
> When formatting your disks on a windows machine, make sure you do NOT
> check the box that says something along the lines of "copy system
> files". You just want a blank formatted disk. The 1.44MB kern.flp and
> mfsroot.flp files will fit on there if done properly with fdimage or
> rawrite.

Actually, system files or not, it doesn't matter, fdimage/rawrite
will clobber the disk's contents and fit it without a problem.

It is recommeded that one does a full format of each diskette
to prevent errors.

-Alfred


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