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From: mlelstv@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Michael van Elst )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Upgrading to 1.3 (was Re: CBM's "blessing")
Message-ID: <661@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 10 Oct 88 11:27:03 GMT
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Reply-To: mlelstv@faui44.UUCP (Michael van Elst (kdebugger))
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In article <2218@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> bhh@ncsuvx.ncsu.ed (Barry Hales) writes:
>There is only one point I am confused on.  Do you need the 1.3 ROMS to boot
>a FFS Workbench disk?  Or is this considered an autoboot device.  I am
>getting a hard disk, so I will want the ability to boot from it.  To do that
>I understand I need the 1.3 ROMS.  But will I need the ROMS to boot a FFS
>disk in DF0:?  Sorry if this is a repeat, but I have never heard this
>question answered on the net.  

That are two different things.
Autobooting is a matter of Kickstart.
FFS is a matter of FastFileSystem-Handler on the Workbench-disk.

So: YOU CANNOT BOOT FROM AN FFS DISK. You have to load the handler
before.

Besides that, FFS cannot work with floppies. It does not know what to
do, if you swap disks.

Commodore people say that both points will be supported in Kickstart 1.4.
Then the FFS-Handler is in your kickstart, so you can use the autoboot
with FFS. Then the FFS-Handler knows about diskchanges, so it can be
used with floppies. Then the FFS-Handler is (somehow) unified with old
DOS, so you may change disks with different file systems.

				Michael van Elst

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