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- From: para@Walden.mo.net (Beakman's Secret Identity)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Demos vs. HD
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 00:31:16 GMT
- Organization: Deranged Social Workers
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- Bill Near (wnear@epix.net) wrote:
- : Use the Early Startup Menu to disable the hard drive
- : partition(s) each time you want to boot from a floppy.
- :
- : You could also put a nonbootable disk in df0: and this
- : should cause the "Insert Workbench" screen to come up upon a
- : reset.
-
- Tried disabling the hard drive from that menu. It doesn't give the
- "Insert Workbench" screen then, and instead pops up a dialog box saying
- that I need to insert a Workbench disk... At which point, it will ONLY
- accept Workbench disks, not any with custom boot blocks. Not sure why,
- but it refuses to.
-
- As for the nonbootable disk idea, I haven't tried it, I shall check that
- possibility.
-
- Thanks...
-
- ParaPsykotic (DSW)
- Tony Bossaller
- para@mo.net
- http://mo.net/~para
-