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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PD Boot Disks
Message-ID: <3094@well.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-May-87 19:46:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 19 19:46:13 1987
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Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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In article <1891@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS) writes:
>Sorry, but it won't work.  A boot disk needs the L directory handlers and
>disk-validator.  Probably also needs quite a bit of what's in DEVS:.
>
	I beg to differ.  Do the following:

	Format a fresh disk.
1> format drive df1: name "Pthpthpthpt!" noicons

	Next, make it bootable.
1> install df1:

	Now, plug this new -- and totally empty -- disk into the internal
drive, and reboot.

	It'll boot.  Mind you, you'll have no commands, and you'll be stuck
in 64-column mode, with all the workbench defaults, but it'll boot.
Software that you may run that opens libraries won't work of course (unless
you re-assign LIBS:).  If the program is properly written, however, it will
bomb out gracefully and tell you that it can't open the library it needs.

	So all you need to make a disk bootable is to install it.
Everything else on the disk is just there to support software that you may
use, but isn't *absolutely* necessary.

	If it turns out I'm blatantly wrong about this, let me know.

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