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From: ifan572@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: Hard drive required for System 7.0?
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Date: 10 Apr 90 14:38:03 GMT
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In article <41294@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> harlan@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Pete Harlan) writes:
>If, as has been suggested, you wouldn't be able to run system 7.0
>without a hard disk, then there would be no way to FORMAT your hard
>disk when it was installed unformatted, there would be no way to boot
>from a floppy when your hard disk went ou;t [sic -- damn apple
>keyboard] to lunch, etc.

The hard disk manufacturer will need to provide a system 6.0x disk with the 
formatting software on it.  (BTW, I've never unpacked a drive that shipped 
unformatted.  I'm sure some do, but I'd think that very rare.)  Unless 7.0
were somehow to use a different disk format, there's no reason why you couldn't
boot from a System 6.0 disk.  People are only saying that you can't run a full
System 7.0 OS from disk.

>
>Granted that system 7.0 might not be very friendly on a floppy-only
>system, but there is NO WAY anyone is going to make a computer system
>that relies on a working hard disk to run.
>
I assume you mean a home computer.  System 7.0 will not somehow invalidate
System 6.0.