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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000's with High Density Drives!
- Date: 24 Jan 1996 07:44:22 GMT
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- Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
-
- : Not saying that a HD floppy is bad.. but why would you need a HD
- : floppy to "boot off to diagnose the problem when something goes
- : wrong with the boot HD" ? Last time I checked the boot floppies
- : were double density and large enough to contain a minimum system
- : and diagnostic tools.
-
- With a change in the kickstart, you would be able to boot off of a CD.
- That CD could contain the base configuration with references to an
- extended CD-user-startup on the hard drive to allow for configuring the
- CD and diagnostic tools on the CD. AT should give the system boot CD a
- name and keep it the same in all future versions and they should also
- give the boot HD partition a standard name for references, maybe
- Workbench: or System:.
-
-
- : Dunno, besides the CD32 which just had a CD for mass storage
- : I haven't seen a floppyless Amiga.
-
- The CD32 would have been a great example of a floppyless Amiga if they
- had put a hard drive controller on there, along with all the other
- ports. If it was as expandable as the 1200, it would be a great low end
- system.
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- Chris Hall
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