Booting linux from 2x 720k 3.5" disks

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From: Mark Purcell
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 1994 09:16

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Install linux on a machine which only has a 720k 3.5" disk drive.
I know for the major distributions you need a HD 3.5", but it must be
posible to either boot a Linux image using 2x720k disks or load
lilo into a hard disk without actually using the 1.44M Linux install
disk.

Any ideas?

Mark

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