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Folks,

   I was trying to boot Linux yesterday on my Gateway 2000 486-33 using
my 3.5in drive which is configured as the B drive. I tried two things

1. Use the boot_b.exe shareware program that allows you to boot from B:
2. Switch the 4pin cables of the A and B floppy drives

Neither worked. In the first case, Linux loaded fine, but once loaded it
started reading the floppy in drive A (boot sector of A floppy written
by boot_b) and bad things happenned. In the second case, the 3.5in drive
still was B:

My question to you folks is, how can I make the 3.5in drive the A:
drive. Can I switch the cables and achieve this. I have a Gateway
4DX-33V with a 5.25in (1.2Mb) as A: and a 3.5in (1.44Mb) as drive B:.
There are two connectors to each floppy drive. One is a 4pin connector,
and the other one is a ribbon wire connector. I apologize for the bad
terminology here, I don't have experience with PC hardware. I swapped
the 4pin connectors of the A and B drives. Is this sufficient. I also
corrected the system configuration (using Ctrl-Alt-Esc), but this didn't
help.

Can boot_b.exe be used to load Linux or other OS from the B: drive
without opening the PC box. Is there someother pd/shareware program that
can do this. 

If none of the above is possible, I guess I have to go out and buy
5.25in floppies. :(

Thanks in advance for any tips. Please send me mail, and I will
summarize to the net.

Vijay