Re: 2.88 MB Floppy Drives

From: Jean-Pierre Radley (jpr_at_jpr.com)
Date: 03/26/04 

Date: 26 Mar 2004 00:18:09 -0500

Transpower typed (on Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:37:37AM +0000):
| >I'm interested in the part about /etc/init. What is this "an error
| >message" that you get? What release of OpenServer are you making these
| >boot floppies for? And from what release must you grab /etc/init to
| >overcome this error message?
| >
|
| I'm on 5.0.7. With the current /etc/init, I would get the message "WARNING:
| exit - /etc/init (PID) died, status 0x0000008B" and the Root diskette would
| thus fail. No problem with substituting an earlier version of /etc/init, like
| from 5.0.4. As for attempting to copy 1.68 MB to a 1.44 MB floppy, that
| certainly would not qualify as good systems engineering practice.

Just run mkdev hd and try making a 1.68 floppy using an old "1.44" floppy
drive and an old "1.44" floppy diskette. 

-- 
JP

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