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Date: Wednesday, November 6, 1991 - 11:58 am

Ok, here's the 16-bit binaries of the bootsector and setup. They are 544
and 340 bytes respectively, but taring made them somewhat bigger (8192).
I decided to send them as a tar archive, as that increases the ways you
can import them to linux.

In order to use them, you have to edit the Linux makefile a bit: remove
(or comment) the lines that have the 16 bit dependencies on them (I'd
also suggest you change 'clean' so that it won't remove these binaries),
and install these binaries in the boot-directory.  The bootblock is
compiled to load 196kB of the system (currently only 110kB is used), so
there is some room to grow before a new bootblock is needed.  This of
course means that the load-time is slightly longer than necessary, but
it's still quite fast. 

Also, as somebody commented, 'cp Image /dev/PS0' won't work with older
versions of GNU cp. Frankly I don't know if the version of cp that linux
uses is corrected, but a 'cat Image > /dev/PS0' or 'dd bs=8192 if=Image
of=/dev/PS0' should work (change /dev/PS0 to match your bootfloppy, of
course).

Additionally, I'd like to know if the floppy-driver works for 2 (or
more) drives? Nobody has commented on that yet. Do a sync before you try
it though (just in case...).

		Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)

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