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From: matthews@udel.EDU (John Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Bare Min. for Bootable Disk
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Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 00:47:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  5 00:47:54 1987
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Can someone tell me what files have to be present on a bootable disk.
I am only looking for the BARE MINIMUM.  I am not worried about any
commands or anything; all I want to know is what is necessary to give me
an open window with a CLI prompt?  I don't even care if a StartUp-Sequence
exists. The reason I am asking is that a while back I remember seeing a
note an a magazine saying that if I use the ADDBUFFER command and add as
much memory as possible to the disk cache and then do a COPY command copying
all files from df0: to df1: I would get a disk with files allocated in
a more contiguous manner so that AmigaDOS (alias SuperSeeker) didn't spend
all day reading files.  Well I tried this, and after much disk
grinding I got a disk that wouldn't boot.  Am I doing something wrong?
Do certain files (eg CLI) have to on certain sectors to boot?

It would probably be best to post to usenet seeing as alot of UUCP'ers
aren't able to get mail back to me via e-mail.  I was under the assumption
that uunet & psuvax1 do relay mail to the internet properly.
Anyone that wants to try, go ahead.

John Matthews
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