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- From: grtdane@aloha.net (Richard J. Dane)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Does A4000 bott without HD
- Date: 19 Feb 1996 16:20:34 GMT
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- norman_henry (henryn@storage.tandem.com) wrote:
- : uljff3@guest.arnes.si (Jernej Pecjak) writes:
- :
- : > If I take out the HD and want to boot it from floppy it doesn't
- :
- : "Taking out" the hard disk???
- :
- : Does the floppy have a bootable system installed on it? This is the
- : only (hopefully, obvious) requirement. The ks code will check the
- : floppy port first for "disk present," and if a disk is there, it will
- : attempt booting from that disk; if it turns out that a disk is there
- : but no "installed" system, your configured highest priority bootable
- : hd partition will be used. If you can't boot from your C= workbench
- : disk, something is very wrong with your setup.
- :
- To spell out "installed". Sometimes you may format a floppy and copy all
- the workbench files, in that case only you need to issue "Install" from
- the shell. if flopy is in DF0: type "Install DRIVE DF0:" Sometimes half
- the map is like no map and needs full spelling :)
- Aloha, richard.
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