Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!jgary
From: jgary@ms.uky.edu (James E. Gary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Kickstart Eliminator
Keywords: What is it?
Message-ID: <11018@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 2 Feb 89 17:06:43 GMT
References: <5948@leadsv.UUCP>
Reply-To: jgary@ms.uky.edu (James E. Gary)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <5948@leadsv.UUCP> lord@leadsv.UUCP (Parker Lord) writes:
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>	I read on the net of the existence of a product called the Kickstart
>Eliminator. Does this board do what it actually implies such as eliminating 
>the need to install the Kickstart disk every time the amiga (I have an A1000) 
>is turned on? Such a thing would be very helpful. My question is where do
>you go about ordering such a thing and are they hard to install. Does any 
>other product exist to allow you to boot up without a Kickstart disk?
>
I haven't used the Kickstart Eliminator, but under 1.2 I used a disk
I got from a freind called KickBench. It had Kickstart1.2 and Workbench
1.2 on it (actually a minimal Workbench) and was good enough to boot
up the hard drive. I don't know what tricks it used exactly, but it
apparently rewrote it's own boot track. It doesn't save you the time
you spend loading Kickstart, but it does save you a disk swap. I would
like to see such a thing for 1.3. I made a minimal RAD: for booting
the hard drive in 82K, so I am sure I would have room on a Kickbench1.3
disk (if such a thing exists). Does anyone know anything more about
KickBench and if a 1.3 version exists? It's great for hard drive users,
you hardly ever take the disk out. You have to keep it write-enabled,
which is a little scary with the virsuses out there now, but I liked
it nonetheless.

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