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From: straka@cbnewsc.att.com (richard.j.straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Final System 7 - will it fit on a 1.44meg floppy?
Message-ID: <1991May8.134818.23861@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 8 May 91 13:48:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbnewsc.1991May8.134818.23861
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In article <1991May6.124006.541@vax1.mankato.msus.edu> tshea@vax1.mankato.msus.edu writes:
>In article <13850@ur-cc.UUCP>, hlsw_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Dave Hollinsworth) writes:
>> Well, the title pretty much says it - will a vanilla copy of System 7 final
>> fit on a high density disk?
>Yes it will...  I made a System 7.0 bootup diskette for emergancy purposes. 
>Prepare to wait for it to bootup though...

What about us pre-FDHD owners?  What limitations would there be when booting
off of a 6.0.x emergency floppy on a Mac whose primary HD volumes are under
7.x?  Any desktop or file system problems or issues?

For instance: I have crashed my bootable HD partition.  I want to restore my
HD from my backups by booting from my floppy drive (800K) under 6.0.5.  This
SHOULD work properly, right? 

I presume that Apple has thought this one through carefully.
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Richard Straka  AT&T Bell Laboratories, IH-6K311
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