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Re: installation disk confusion



Colin Telmer <telmerco@telmer.com> writes:

> Hi, I have convinced some colleagues at my office to try debian and I was
> in the midst of pointing out which slink install disks to use and ran
> across something that has stumped me (which implies I am probably missing
> something obvious). Anyway, there doesn't seem to be a resc1440.bin disk
> so I thought that it was simply missing and I could look later. However,
> there is a resc1743 disk but no drv1743 or base17-* disks. As a point of
> curiosity, what is this new disk? A new floppy drive size? Am I missing
> something? Thanks for any help. Cheers, Colin.

It's a special format for 1.44MB disks.  A bad idea, IMHO.

BTW, are we going to have a resc1440 disk?  The 1.743MB disks can't be
created from DOS, and won't work on my laptop anyways.  (They don't
even boot.)


Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu


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