Re: 1.2 MB boot floppies?

[Gregory Vence <gvence@ix.netcom.com>]

Sven Rudolph wrote:
> 
> Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> >
> > > What is the current status of the 1.2 MB boot floppies? I have one report
> > > of superformat breaking during creation of a 1.2 bootstrap floppy from the
> > > installation system.
> 
> I am not aware of a superformat problem.
> 
> > I don't know for sure. I seem to remember at least one of my testers who
> > have used the 1.2 but I may be mistaken. I'm going to try to condense the
> > reports for Vincent this weekend. One of the things that is very clear
> > from preliminary testing is, things that work on one platform fail on
> > another.
> 
> I reproduced Greg Vence's problem here, it is solved.
> 
> I plan to release the new disks before the freeze. (OK, this is
> what one might expect ...)

Let me know when its out there and I'll give another test.
(BTW, didn't you say there's a dir somewhere to 'pre'-test it?)

Greg.