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- From: rock@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM (Bill Petro)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: creating Norton emergency disk for pb 180
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.003131.12337@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 00:31:31 GMT
- References: <C15HrA.FH4@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: SunSoft, Colorado Springs, CO: A Sun Microsystems Business
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- gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard J. Gaylord) writes:
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- >the emergency disk HD that comes with norton utiliities v.2.0 has
- >system 7.0.1
- >disk doctor
- >speed disk
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- >it won't work with the powerbook 180, ofcourse.
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- >i took off the speed disk (it won't fit) and system 7.0.1. and put on
- >system enabler 111
- >system 7.1
- >disk doctor
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- >however, i can't get the powerbook to boot off the floppy.
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- >i know the floppy doesn't have a finder and i have to set the floppy up
- >to go directly into disk doctor but i can't figure out how to do that.
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- >can someonr tell me how to do this?
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- >thanks.
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- >btw - i called norton but they havn't gotten back to me on this.
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- I also had the same problem with a Performa 600 which runs 7.1P.
- Does Norton have any help? I had to use the Apple supplied floppy to boot and
- then mount another hard disk with Norton on it to recover.
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- Bill "Rock" Petro - SunSoft Product Marketing
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