Re: Booting From A Zip Drive???

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From: Greg Tallent
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 00:00

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Back on 10-Mar-99 04:57:26 Oliver Kastl olli@nospam.elaborate-bytes.com Wrote:
>Matt Parker wrote in message ...
>>It is connected through a SurfSquirrel. I would like to be able to do this


>You can't autoboot from a Squirrel.

(That depends on how friendly the squirrel is, wouldn't it? :)

Well, not directly.  he'll have to create a bootdisk and use that to mount the
drivers for the squirrel in memory first.  then he can boot up the system with
the Zip.

Sort of like using the 2090 on the A2000.

<tsb>
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Date: 1999/03/10
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