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From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
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Subject: Why we don't have a 2-floppy boot set ?
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 14:18:55 +0600 (GMT+0600)
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Why we have no bootable 2-floppy set ? I think it's enough easy to
solve the problem with lack of spce on the boot floppy. The only
thing we need is to add a driver that will be attached the first
(or after sc0) and the only thing it will do is to write:

	Insert the 2nd (root) floppy in the drive and press <Return>

and then waits for <Return>. It will work before mounting of root
and even before the fd0 probing so there should be no problem
with all other code.

In result of this we will have 1 floppy with the kernel (upto 1.4M)
and 1 floppy with the root file system (upto 1.4M).


P.S. I think I can write such pseudodriver if there is no reasons to
not do it.

		Serge Babkin

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