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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 18:11:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: "Christopher D. Cofer" <cofer@www.cas.unt.edu>
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Subject: Re: Installing Stable on 386/33 No Boot Prompt.
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On Mon, 1 Jul 1996, Christopher D. Cofer wrote:

> I am trying to install stable on a 386/33 with 20 Meg.  I have correctly 
> downloaded and checked on another machine the boot.flp.  After the 
> machine goes through POST it hangs.  The floppy is operational with 
> other OS boot disks. Has anyone seen this before?

  Make sure the drive is configured as 1.44MB floppy in the CMOS setup.
DOS doesn't care, and works no matter the CMOS says, but the loader on the
boot disk needs to know.

Tom