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Jordan K. Hubbard
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2. Go through docs and generally clean them up / reorganize in preparation for 2.2.6
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For a normal CDROM or network installation, all you need to copy onto
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an actual floppy from this directory is the boot.flp image (for 1.44MB
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floppies).
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IMPORTANT NOTE: These images are NOT DOS files! You cannot simply
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copy them to a DOS floppy as regular files, you need to *image* copy
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them to the floppy with fdimage.exe under DOS or `dd' under UNIX. You
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also must be sure to transfer them in BINARY mode when using FTP since
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ASCII mode will destroy the contents, as will certain web browsers.
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If the length of the floppy image is not exactly 1474560 bytes in your
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copy then it has been corrupted in transit and must be re-fetched.
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CREATING A FLOPPY FROM AN IMAGE FILE:
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-------------------------------------
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To create the boot floppy image from DOS, you'd do something like
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this:
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C> fdimage boot.flp a:
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Assuming that you'd copied fdimage.exe and boot.flp into a directory
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somewhere. If you were doing this from the base of a CD distribution,
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then the *exact* command would be:
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E> tools\fdimage floppies\boot.flp a:
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If you're creating the boot floppy from a UNIX machine, you may find
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that:
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dd if=floppies/boot.flp of=/dev/rfd0
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or
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dd if=floppies/boot.flp of=/dev/floppy
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work well, depending on your hardware and operating system environment
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(different versions of UNIX have totally different names for the
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floppy drive - neat, huh? :-).
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