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Should I make a new boot disk?

Post by Ted C. Wa » Fri, 03 Jun 1994 00:27:28



Hello everyone,

I just upgraded my PC from 486SX-25MHz to 486DX-33MHz and just found out
that Linux will not boot up anymore from my boot disk(1.44Meg).
Should I make a new boot disk? How?

Any help will be appreciated.

-Ted

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