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Article #182Re: Booting From A Zip Drive???
From: Joe Cosby
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 00:00
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** To reply in e-mail, remove "kojged." from address ** "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"? -- ---------------------------------------------------- Joe Cosby Devout member of the Church of Amiga since 1990 "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it" - Goethe ----------------------------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f6f0c,7c8b34fc11d09ea3 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6f0c,public X-Google-Thread: 104e68,7c8b34fc11d09ea3 X-Google-Attributes: gid104e68,public X-Google-Thread: 1160fd,7c8b34fc11d09ea3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1160fd,public X-Google-Thread: 11015b,7c8b34fc11d09ea3 X-Google-Attributes: gid11015b,public X-Google-Thread: f7e4d,7c8b34fc11d09ea3 X-Google-Attributes: gidf7e4d,public X-Google-Thread: 106ac0,7c8b34fc11d09ea3 X-Google-Attributes: gid106ac0,public From: joecosby@kojged.seatac.net (Joe Cosby) Subject: Re: Booting From A Zip Drive??? Date: 1999/03/13 Message-ID: <N1mG2.575$dB2.3674@news14.ispnews.com> X-Deja-AN: 454445179 References: <7c8bqr$1l3$1@mrburns.hisoft.co.uk> <36E97D56.MD-1.2.arnogropp@cityweb.de> X-Trace: news14.ispnews.com 921300205 208.240.208.192 (Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:43:25 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:43:25 EST Newsgroups: demon.tech.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc,demon.ip.support.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.networking,comp.sys.amiga.hardware