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Offline trekiejTopic starter

Kickstart Question
« on: May 07, 2011, 09:15:58 PM »
What is the first KS that could boot from from an external floppy?
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Re: Kickstart Question
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2011, 09:19:15 PM »
Pretty sure it was 1.2 but it's been so long ago now I might be wrong... :)
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Re: Kickstart Question
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2011, 09:36:12 PM »
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What is the first KS that could boot from from an external floppy?

Kickstart 2.0.
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Re: Kickstart Question
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2011, 09:38:23 PM »
Thanks, I upgraded my A500 to 3.1 so that I could take advantage of that.
I also have the 1.2 or 1.3 KS.
I wish I could afford a switcher.
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Re: Kickstart Question
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2011, 09:45:12 PM »
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Kickstart 2.0.


Wow... was it as late as 2.0

Gawd me memory's worse than I thought... :)
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Re: Kickstart Question
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2011, 10:13:54 PM »
I thought it might have been above 1.X.
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Re: Kickstart Question
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2011, 10:46:11 PM »
Now if we get really pedantic (and we all love getting pedantic don't we) it would have been 1.3, as that was the official OS in the CDTV which could boot from external floppy.

O.k. that floppy was still DF0, but we all agreed that being pedantic is just fine ;)
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Re: Kickstart Question
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2011, 11:20:58 PM »
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Now if we get really pedantic (and we all love getting pedantic don't we) it would have been 1.3, as that was the official OS in the CDTV which could boot from external floppy.

O.k. that floppy was still DF0, but we all agreed that being pedantic is just fine ;)


Nothing pedantic about it, I was pretty sure the ability to do so was around before 2.0 (all be it having nothing to do with the original question but why get technical about such wee matters)... :)

Just glad to know me memory isn't as bad as I thought and I aint losing me marbles yet... :)
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Re: Kickstart Question
« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2011, 11:25:20 PM »
To be precise:

Kickstart1.x COULD not boot from DF1-3, only DF0.

Where that was mounted is irrelevant.
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Re: Kickstart Question
« Reply #9 on: May 08, 2011, 12:55:43 AM »
You could force-boot from an external floppy with Degrader before 2.0.
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Re: Kickstart Question
« Reply #10 on: May 08, 2011, 01:55:28 AM »
I remember there use to be a little device chip you could use to disable the internal floppy.  I don't remember the details.

It was used in conjunction with AdIDE in an amiga 500.  One would put the hard drive in the internal floppy's location, and one could boot off an external floppy as df0:

This was definitely in the days of 1.3
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Re: Kickstart Question
« Reply #11 on: May 08, 2011, 01:58:36 AM »
I remember wanting the AdIDE, but ended up buying a GVP A500 HD+ instead.
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Re: Kickstart Question
« Reply #12 on: May 08, 2011, 03:55:16 AM »
I have a adide and there is no such option on the board to boot from df1:  .. i think there is a terminator (disabler) or something that plugs in the df0: i bet.. I seem to remember there are external drives that have switch's that can select df0 or df1 as a default boot drive for 1.x

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Re: Kickstart Question
« Reply #13 on: May 08, 2011, 04:14:34 AM »
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I remember there use to be a little device chip you could use to disable the internal floppy.  I don't remember the details.

It was used in conjunction with AdIDE in an amiga 500.  One would put the hard drive in the internal floppy's location, and one could boot off an external floppy as df0:

This was definitely in the days of 1.3


Yeah. It was the ICD Shuffle Board.

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=383
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Re: Kickstart Question
« Reply #14 on: May 08, 2011, 04:16:11 AM »
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What is the first KS that could boot from from an external floppy?


Hi,

I really don't know, but Kick Start 1.0 came with my A1000 2 weeks after Commodore Amiga came out.   :-) Then about 3 to 6 months later they came out with KS 1.1.

Hope this helps.

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