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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Big USB disks
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 18:25:09 +0000
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On Wednesday, 23 December 2020 09:54:36 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 22/12/2020 14:58, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > Just a quickie - is there a way to enable a machine built on an MSDOS BIOS
> 
> A *what* BIOS? Do mean you run MS-DOS as on OS?

What would you call it?

$ file /boot/boot.0800: DOS/MBR boot sector.

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Regards,
Peter.