Re: rebooting from a floppy?

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From: Per Fredrik Solberg
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 07:38

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In article <1992Sep26.205355.29934@newstand.syr.edu> foudil@npac.syr.edu (Kamal Foudil-Bey) writes:
>I need a facility or a way to force my pc to reboot from drive b. How
>can I accomplish that without having to open my system and switch the 
>floppies?
>urgent---thanks
>

There is a small utility, named bootb or something like that, that
allows you to transfer the boot process to the B drive. It is
available via anonymous ftp; Sorry, I don't remember where I saw it,
but simtel and garbo.uwasa.fi are likely candidates.

Per Solberg
perfred@idt.unit.no / pso@si.no

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