From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will) Subject: Re: INSTALLING LINUX Date: 13 Jan 1993 20:46:00 GMT
BS>Linux will not boot off a DOS format disk; the a1 disk is a Linux-format
BS>boot disk, which is an entirely different creature that DOS can't cope with
BS>except by using special programs like RAWrite. (a2 is a mountable
BS>Linux-format disk, which is yet another format which DOS can't handle. DOS
BS>is *very* stupid.)
If you want to copy either of these disks with DOS, it's trivial to do with
a number of utilities, personally I used Anadisk from Sydex, but there are
a host of others.