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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!panix!cwahl
- From: cwahl@panix.com (Charles Wahl)
- Subject: Question -- how to make bootable FFS floppy under 2.04
- Message-ID: <C0B8vu.E58@panix.com>
- Keywords: bootable FFS floppy
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 03:40:41 GMT
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- The system disks that come with the 2.04 AmigaDOS distribution are of
- the Old File System variety -- i.e. their capacity is 837K rather than
- the 879K which a disk formatted with the Fast File System will hold.
-
- Since I am still floppy-bound, it would be nice to have a boot disk
- which is FFS, but I don't know how to go about making a boot disk unless
- you have a bootable disk to copy (which was the technique I always used
- under 1.3). The manual only says "A bootable disk is one that contains
- the files the Amiga needs to start operation" (p. 1-40), but that is not
- the whole story, obviously, because copying everything on my 2.04 boot
- disk onto a FFS formatted disk still results in a non-bootable disk (I
- didn't use DiskCopy, since that would just give me an OFS boot disk).
-
- Anyone know how to get around this? I'd appreciate a tip in the right
- direction. Post or email are both ok.
-
- Happy New Year,
-
- Charles Wahl <cwahl@panix.com>
-