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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000's with High Density Drives!
- Date: 24 Jan 1996 11:43:32 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4e52gk$7le@serpens.rhein.de>
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- chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall) writes:
-
- >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 doesn't answer my question and really is off-topic regarding
- the demand for high density floppy drives.
-
- But no, booting from CD is perfectly possible _now_. Booting from
- a standard ISO9660-CD is not possible unless you have the ISO9660
- filesystem in ROM.
-
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- Michael van Elst
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