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From: mrush@csuchico.edu (Matt Rush)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Can I de-install a floppy?
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Date: 2 Mar 90 23:27:06 GMT
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In article <1175@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>In <2623@leah.Albany.Edu>, wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond) writes:
>>Does anyone have a utility to de-install a floppy without disturbing
>>the directories and files that are present?  (I know that "format"
>>will de-install, but it also wipes out all directories and files.)
>>Preferably the boot blocks should be left looking as if they came from
>>"format".
>
>Interesting idea, and one that is easy to implement. Until someone does it, you

   Gee, how about just using

      INSTALL DRIVE df0: NOBOOT
                         ^^^^^^   the noboot keyword makes it a dos disk, but it
prevents you from booting from it.
   Those 1.3 guys are pretty clever, huh?

   -- Matt
   (no, I don't have a .sig -- ya wanna make something of it?  Or better yet,
    make something FOR it?)