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- From: lee@insync.net (Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Super Kickstart
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 09:40:15 GMT
- Organization: Insync Internet Service Provider, Houston, Texas
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- ->I'm the happy owner of an A3000/16, going soon to upgrade to KS/WB 3.1 .
- ->Just a few days ago I realized that I don't have a backup copy of KS 2.04
- ->(the A3000 is soft-kicked, of course) and while I could be Ok with WB
- ->2.04 (I have the original disk set for A2000) should anything be lost, it
- ->would be very hard to actually start up the machine without the proper KS
- ->disk.
-
- ->So I took GrabKick and MKick 1.8 and tried to create a KS disk. I "grabbed"
- ->the KickStart, used MakeKickDisk to build a suitable (or so I believed) KS
- ->disk and rebooted while pressing the two mouse buttons. I chose to boot
- ->with KS 2.04 from floppy, inserted my brand-new KS disk and waited. The
- ->drive started to grind, the LED went on and off, but nothing happened,
- ->apart of the "Insert a Super Kickstart Disk in drive DF0:". So:
-
- ->1) What did I do wrong?
-
- The kick image is stored in DEVS: It is a file, and you do not need
- Grabkick to get it.
-
- ->2) What's a Super-Kickstart disk different in from a plain KS disk?
- ->3) Can (and how?) I build one?
-
- No one knows, but they can't be made, or copied. If it does crash, I hope
- you still have a WB2.x partition with the kickimage in DEVS:
-
- Lee
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