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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Boot file system idea!  Slick
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 13:00:32 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199707220948.TAA29292@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jul 22, 97 07:18:53 pm
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> > I second that....a small DOS partition instead of the BFS is great.  As one 
> > who usually blasts the kernel from time to time, I would really appreciate
> > a "simple" fix without using a special floppy or reinstall.
> 
> Uhh, what's a DOS boot disk if not a "special" floppy?
> 
> And what about the backup kernels, hmm?

A BSD boot disk is just as capable of wrting DOS files.  There's
no hard-and-fast DOS requirement simply because you use FAT.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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