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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Upgrading to 1.3 (was Re: CBM's "blessing")
Message-ID: <12667@oberon.USC.EDU>
Date: 8 Oct 88 04:12:32 GMT
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In article <3973@enea.se> tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
>In article <12506@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>.lots deleted
>:T make it clear again, to run SetPatch you don't need 1.3 ROMS. To run
>:FFS you don't need 1.3 ROMs.  To use an autoboot device, you NEED 1.3 ROMs.
>
>Do You have to have 1.3 ROM's to be able to auto-boot from the
>recoverable RAM-disk in 1.3 ?

Yes and no :-) If you have an A2000 or A500, yes you need 1.3 ROMS to reboot
from the recoverable RAM disk.  If you have an A1000 you can use the Kickstart
disk that will come with the "1.3 Enhancer" and autoboot from the RAM disk
(after a crash, for example).

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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