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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: melott on August 16, 2004, 03:05:04 PM

Title: A dumb question ......
Post by: melott on August 16, 2004, 03:05:04 PM
How do I create a HD 1.76 bootable floppy???
Title: Re: A dumb question ......
Post by: whabang on August 16, 2004, 03:08:43 PM
Stupid people ask questions. Incompetent people don't. :-)

Where are you trying to create it? in UAE?
Or do you own a floppy disk factory?

Please clarify.
Title: Re: A dumb question ......
Post by: SilvrDrgn on August 16, 2004, 03:10:00 PM
Format the floppy in your HD floppy drive.  Then, assuming your HD floppy drive is device name "DF0:", you start up a CLI window and type the following command:  install DF0:
Replace the device name with the correct device for your drive, if needed.
Title: Re: A dumb question ......
Post by: Thomas on August 16, 2004, 03:11:37 PM

"Create" ? You don't speak of an emulator, do you ?

Well, put a HD floppy disk into you HD floppy drive. When the icon appears on the Workbench, click it once and choose "format disk" from the menu. Choose your options and click on format. When formatting is ready, you have a 1.7 MB non-bootable floppy disk.

Open a Shell window (choose "execute command" from the menu and enter "newshell"). Enter install df0: where df0 has to be replaced by the drive name of your HD floppy drive. Now you have a 1.7 MB bootable floppy disk.

Bye,
Thomas
Title: Re: A dumb question ......
Post by: melott on August 16, 2004, 03:26:58 PM
Thanks ........
I have never seemed to have a reason to make a
bootable floppy  :-D

I need it for my A2000. It has a 2060 accellerator
and doesn't want to boot properly without the 060 lib.
My 880 install disk is full, no room for the 060 lib so
I need a HD 1.76 install disk.