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From: mford@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Mark Ford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: GEOS Companion Disk
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Date: 19 Feb 91 20:25:38 GMT
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From article <1991Feb17.024528.17465@nntp-server.caltech.edu>, by rknop@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop):

> Hmmm... I had trouble with the 1581 bootmaker, but that wasn't it.  First
> question: what version of GEOS are you using?  I don't know this, but I
> suspect it may only work with 2.0.  Maybe not.
> 
> Second: the problem I did have was, after creating the boot disk, I started
> moving files around on the disk so they were all organized prettily by page.
> When I was done, I discovered that the first three files on the disk, the
> system files, had vanished!  

I downloaded the 1581 bootmaker for the C-128 from Q-Link awhile ago.  I ran
it and everything has been just fine.  It boots every time on the 1581 and
my system files have never vanished.  I do not have version 2.0 but the 
version before 2.0 came out.  This means that either the bootmaker on Q-Link
is not the same as the one on the disk, or Geos 2.0 has trouble with it and
the Geos 128 pre-2.0 does not, or I am just lucky.

Mark.
mford@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu