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Re: Booting From A Zip Drive???

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From: Joe Cosby
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 00:00
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"Arno Gropp" hunched over his computer, typing feverishly;
thunder crashed, "Arno Gropp" laughed madly, then wrote:
> ......................... 
> > : You can't autoboot from a Squirrel.
> > 
> > You can if you use a SquirrelHD boot disk.  This will install the driver into
> > memory (reset proof).  You can now boot from Zip or HD connected the Surf Sqs.
> 
> 
> Indeed you can. I used that config for about two years, with a hd with
> several partitions on it and another one (and a Syquest later as
> well) on the AT controller. The trick was to have the bootable
> partition phisically first on the hd and IIRC a priority of +3 on it.
> Everything else bootable -except df0:- had to have lower priorties and
> was accessed via Early Startup Control.

I was thinking about this today...

Even with the boot disk approach, isn't it
possible to boot from a RAD: disk?

> -- 
> Man liest sich.

"You read yourself"?

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From: joecosby@kojged.seatac.net (Joe Cosby)
Subject: Re: Booting From A Zip Drive???
Date: 1999/03/13
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