Re: Booting From A Zip Drive???

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From: Matt 'Neko' Sealey
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 00:00

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>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,
>obviously called WorkBench, and be able to stick it in the Zip Drive, then
>switch on and boot from the zip.
>
>It is connected through a SurfSquirrel. I would like to be able to do this
>in case I encounter problems with my Hard Drive so I would be able to get
>my workbench up and running without the hard drive being required.

What the other guys said works fine, but not for a Surf Squirrel as the
drivers
are loaded from the hard disk. The best you can do is make a skeleton
Workbench floppy disk with the Squirrel drivers on and re-assign all the
SYS:
C: L: etc. directories to the Zip and continue from there.

--
Matt Sealey mws2@le.ac.uk
Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester

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From: "Matt 'Neko' Sealey" <mws2@le.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Booting From A Zip Drive???
Date: 1999/03/10
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