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From: andrews@cos.com (Andrew R. Scholnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: trouble with rad:
Summary: There is some kind of conflict here.
Message-ID: <15592@cos.com>
Date: 27 Feb 89 13:43:17 GMT
References: <3656@utastro.UUCP>
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems, McLean, VA
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In article <3656@utastro.UUCP>, sjk@utastro.UUCP (Scot Kleinman) writes:
> I finally spent the time and got 1.3 up and running on my 1000. I
> like the idea of the rad: device, but I am having some problems
 ...
> Third, I can't seem to get rad: to boot under FFS.  I have tried
> adding a mountlist entry saying
> 	DosType = FFS
> and one saying
> 	Dos Type = 0x444f5301
> as Amiga World and the Amiga Dos manual recommend (respectively),
> but still have had no luck.  What is the proper way to do this? I

As I understand it there is a (sparsely documented) problem with
using rad: and FFS together.  I do not understand the nature of the
problem but I know that I gave up trying and now just use FFS on my
hard disks.  If you find a solution please let me know...


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