>>>>> ""John" == "John F Woods" <jfw@funhouse.com> writes:

>> I'm curious to know if there are any PC NetBSD users out there who
>> have systems that only contain 5 1/4" 1.2 Mb floppy drives; i.e.,
>> they have no 3 1/2" 1.44 Mb floppy drive.

John> While I have both kinds of floppy on my system, the 5.25 is the
John> one which is bootable unless I dork around with cables.
John> (Which, perhaps, I might as well do, since it has now been
John> years since I had to reinstall MS-DOS 5 from the distribution
John> floppies.)  However, I suspect that there are many systems
John> cabled similarly, making that not necessarily a friendly change
John> to make.  (On the other hand, Microsoft, the folks who put the
John> "backward" in "backward compatible" :-), have apparently
John> abandoned 5.25-only people since NT has to boot from a 3.5"
John> drive...)

	While I also have both, the bios in the old 386 allows me to
switch floppies easily as do jumpers on my I/O card, etc.

	Maybe as a perspective, I put a 5 1/4 drive in my PC because
there were so many just lying around unused that I figured 'why not?'
...

Dave.

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