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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: How to create a bootbale floppy for emerginces?
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On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Stan Brown wrote:

> 
> 
> 	i thought that I could gab the fixit/flp image and dd it to a diks to
> 	create an emergency backup boot floppy. 
> 
> 	However this doesn't seem to work. When I try to boot from this floppy
> 	the system just goes into an infinite rety loop.

The fixit floppy starts from the install floppy.  Boot the boot floppy,
then select the 'fixit' option.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major