Subj : 2.88 MB Floppy Operations?
To   : Kris Steenhaut
From : Eddy Thilleman
Date : Tue Mar 13 2001 04:38 am

Hello Kris,

Monday 12 March 2001 10:50, Kris Steenhaut wrote to Eddy Thilleman:

ET>> I'm skeptical about this with a true 2,8 MB floppy drive.

KS> No need to be.
KS> IBM1flpy.add supports the genuine floppy 2.8 format, so bootos2 will

On a true 2.8 MB floppy, meaning with specifications for 2.8 MB, and in a true 
2.8 MB floppy drive, ofcourse then the 2.8 MB floppy format will be supported. 
But Mike was talking about using the 2.8 MB floppy format on a 1.4 MB floppy, 
and that's I'm very skeptical about if I see claims for this, but I never have 
seen such a claim.

KS> use an entire 2.8 (on condition the bios supports that too ofcoz).
KS> Albeit, I never had an 2.8 floppy in my eyesight anywhere <G>.

I've never seen a floppy nor a floppy drive that's specified at 2.8 MB, either.

KS> Incidentally, the 2.8 format is a life safer nevertheless. The eCS- GA
KS> will use two virtual 2.8 floppy formats in order to boot from a
KS> bootable CD. Apparently the only way to overcome the louzy OS/2
KS> INSTALLER.

Or, if your BIOS has support to boot from cdrom, put the eCs boot cdrom in a 
IDE/ATA cdrom drive (attached to your system and turned on) and make sure the 
"Boot from" option in the BIOS is set to cdrom. If eCs has the system rebooted 
to start from its boot partition for the first time, set the "Boot from" option 
in the BIOS to whatever that allows that boot partition to be started.


  Greetings   -=Eddy=-

  email: e.thilleman@freeler.nl
         e.thilleman@hccnet.nl

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