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- From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell)
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- Subject: Re: More install questions
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- References: <1992Dec25.205004.28379@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 14:24:27 +0000
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- In article <1992Dec25.205004.28379@nwnexus.WA.COM> danubius@halcyon.com writes:
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- >As I am struggling through Werner's fancy-looking Tex document on LILO
- >Version 0.7, I have encountered the following instruction in Section 7.1
- >(pg. 32):
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- >"The next step is to test LILO with the boot sector on a floppy disk:
- >
- > o insert a blank (but low-level formatted) floppy disk into /dev/fd0."
- >
- >Just WHAT IS A LOW-LEVEL FORMATTED FLOPPY in Linux parlance?
- >
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- Stick a blank high density disk in what would be your dos a: drive
- and try fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 that will format the disk but not create
- a file system on it
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- --
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- anthony
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