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In article <2218@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu| bhh@ncsuvx.ncsu.ed (Barry Hales) writes:
|In article <12506@oberon.USC.EDU| papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
||T make it clear again, to run SetPatch you don't need 1.3 ROMS. To run
||FFS you don't need 1.3 ROMs.  To use an autoboot device, you NEED 1.3 ROMs.
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|There is only one point I am confused on.  Do you need the 1.3 ROMS to boot
|a FFS Workbench disk?  Or is this considered an autoboot device.  I am
|getting a hard disk, so I will want the ability to boot from it.  To do that
|I understand I need the 1.3 ROMS.  But will I need the ROMS to boot a FFS
|disk in DF0:?  Sorry if this is a repeat, but I have never heard this
|question answered on the net.  

FFS has nothing to do with autoboot.  FFS is not supported on floppy
disks.  The first partition of your hard disk (dh0:) cannot be FFS.
Given that, I think you can't boot a FFS floppy disk (but why not give it
a try?).

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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