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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a3162
- From: Edward_Swatschek@mindlink.bc.ca (Edward Swatschek)
- Subject: Re: Question -- how to make bootable FFS floppy under 2.04
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 08:36:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <19245@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- > Charles Wahl writes:
- >
- > ...
- >
- > 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).
- >
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- After formatting the disk, you need to use the INSTALL command to place a
- bootblock on it. (ie: install df0: ) You can now copy over the files to this
- disk and it should boot properly.
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