| From: | Eds Borthwick |
| Date: | 11 Jul 2000 at 16:00:03 |
| Subject: | Re: Emergency Boot disks |
Hello Jonathan
On 11-Jul-00, you wrote:
> In a final step against any bodge-ups that can occur if you are a moron
> like myself, I decided yesterday to try creating an emergency bootdisk.
> So I made my own, which is just the Workbench 3.1 disk with some chaff
> thrown out, the Phase5 040 libraries and CacheCDFS setup. Along with this
> is an archive including additional PFS filesystems and some tools
> including PFS doctor and SCSI config. On booting a small script can be
> executed which extracts the archive to RAM: and adds the files to the
> assigns list. It works well so far.
> But it's a bit ugly, as there are no RTG libraries (because they didn't
> fit) so I'm relying on the display from the kludge 31Khz PAL mode built
> into the FlashROM of my Phase5 card (anyone used this for games?).
> What I'm wondering is if I can take the archive idea further, and have
> some kind of specialised startup sequence that extracts and makes
> available a larger archive containing more stuff during the boot sequence,
> so I can have a totally independant boot disk that contains more than it
> could otherwise. If anyone has done it or has any tips, then I would like
> to hear them :)
If you need a multi floppy sized boot disk, but on one volume, you could
consider setting up a custom sized ram drive big enough to suit your
needs, dearchiving all your system drivers, libs etc. off of a number of
floppys onto it, and booting from that.
L8r
Eds
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