Re: Booting From A Zip Drive???

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From: Stephen Marriott
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 00:00

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In demon.ip.support.amiga Brad Rogers <brad@pianosa.demon.co.uk> wrote:

: >I cannot figure out how to make my zip drive available to boot from. I
: >would like to be able to keep a copy of my Workbench on a Zip Disk,
: >It is connected through a SurfSquirrel. I would like to be able to do this

: It's not possible to boot *from cold* via anything connected to the
: (Surf)Squirrel.  

Correct.

: What you need to do is creat a boot floppy that
: initialises the Squirrel, and anything connectged to it.  This means a
: fairly simple StartUp-Sequence, and the relevant files in DEVS:DOSDrivers,
: LIBS:, etc. on the floppy.  

The Surf Squirrel installer will build u a boot disk.

: Once that has booted, you reset, and hold down
: both mouse buttons.  At this point, you'll see the Zip drive as "existing",
: and you can select it to boot from.

If u have Workbench on the Zip you can just reset the machine after booting
from the Squirrel HD boot disk.

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From: stevem@hisoft.co.uk (Stephen Marriott)
Subject: Re: Booting From A Zip Drive???
Date: 1999/03/11
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