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From: jah@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jonathan Helton)
Subject: Re: System 7 and machines with 800K disks
Message-ID: <1991May25.003928.15927@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Organization: Academic Computing and Network Services, Northwestern University, Evanston, Il.
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Date: Sat, 25 May 1991 00:39:28 GMT
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In article <9030@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> amhastings@ucdavis.edu (Alan Hastings) writes:
>As I understand it, even a minimal system 7 does not fit on an 800K floppy. 
>Yet, many times if you are having problems with a hard drive, the first step is
>to boot from a floppy.  Will this be possible with machines with only 800K
>floppies?  Will we have to use a system 6 floppy to rescue a system 7 machine?
>
>Could this be why we have yet to see updates to some of the utility programs?
>
>Alan Hastings
>amhastings@ucdavis.edu

Minimal system 7.0 takes up over 1MB on a HD floppy. 

The 800k version of the System 7.0 installer disks includes a Disk Tools
disk with System 6.0.x for troubleshooting.
-- 
Jonathan Helton
jah@casbah.acns.nwu.edu