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On Tue, 6 Feb 1996, Peter H Hawkins wrote:

> HELP! I have downloaded boot.flp and used rawrite to write it on a recently 
>  
>  formatted floppy.  I have repeated this process many times, and it never boots
>  
>  or displays anything.  Could it be my new pentium 133 machine?

.  Did you try reformatting the floppy destructively, checking for bad 
sectors?

. Did you download the boot.flp in binary mode?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
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