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Re: creating Norton emergency disk for pb 180

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From: Bill Petro
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:31
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gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard J. Gaylord) writes:

>the emergency disk HD that comes with norton utiliities v.2.0 has 
>system 7.0.1
>disk doctor
>speed disk

>it won't work with the powerbook 180, ofcourse.

>i took off the speed disk (it won't fit) and system 7.0.1. and put on 
>system enabler 111 
>system 7.1 
>disk doctor 

>however,  i can't get the powerbook to boot off the floppy. 

>i know the floppy doesn't have a finder and i have to set the floppy up
>to go directly into disk doctor but i can't figure out how to do that.

>can someonr tell me how to do this?

>thanks.

>btw - i called norton but they havn't gotten back to me on this.


I also had the same problem with a Performa 600 which runs 7.1P.
Does Norton have any help?  I had to use the Apple supplied floppy to boot and
then mount another hard disk with Norton on it to recover.

Bill "Rock" Petro - SunSoft Product Marketing
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From: rock@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM (Bill Petro)
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Subject: Re: creating Norton emergency disk for pb 180
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