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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: FastBoot
- Date: 28 Mar 96 10:42:56 +0000
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- Hi, Daniel J. O'Connor , on 26-Mar-96 22:49:59 you scribbled....
- >Networker One (n42@pip.dknet.dk) wrote:
- >: Yeps, great! A very good idea implemented in a smart and usefull way.
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- >: I just love it. Only need a little userinterface at startup so I can
- >: select which freezed/grabbed system I want to boot. Supported by a smart
- >: freezer interface so I could name my freezed systems which I then could
- >: sele from the bootup.
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- >Hmmm.. maybe you can expand on the docs then, cause when I tried it, I
- >couldn't get it to work, and it didn't seem to be behaving well so I
- >nuked it... Seemed like pretty pissy docs for such a powerful ute...
- yeah confusing docs....
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- all you really need is to do a
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- c:fastbootgrab
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- after wb etc has finished loading....
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- then run
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- c:fastboot
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- very early in your startup-sequnece.
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- The complex bit is to make diskchange run just after fastbooting....
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- >Or maybe it doesn't like AFS...
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- It works with AFS, but the diskchange command doesnt seem to like the fastbooted
- system....
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- >Seeya
- >Darius
- >~~~~~~
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- Mike
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