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Re: Ultimate Boot Floppy
« on: February 18, 2007, 11:56:10 PM »
Ahhhh, the days when I used to boot the Workbench floppy then load Deluxe Paint to scribble on.

:-)

I think the best things to put on an Emergency Boot Disk would be a CD file system, Ordering/DOpus and maybe DiskSalv.

Why stick to a floppy when you could have an emergency SRAM card for the PCMCIA slot though... booting from the mystic CC0: !

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Re: Ultimate Boot Floppy
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2007, 06:11:24 AM »
Nobody could possibly want to boot even a basic Workbench at 10K/s these days other than in the event of a catastrophic hard drive failure.

If you get DiskSalv 2 it has a program to make a bootable emergency disk. Handy if you get into bother.
 

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Re: Ultimate Boot Floppy
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2007, 08:49:10 PM »
Oh Jeezuz! Stay away from Reorg... the number of times that's killed my hard disk...
 

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Re: Ultimate Boot Floppy
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2007, 02:00:06 AM »
No! 3 (three)!

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Disturb Reorg and kiss goodbye to your entire hard disk contents. Sometimes it will crash the machine, other times it will just lock.

Not sure whether it's worth using, even for floppies.