spencer@usc-oberon.UUCP (Randy Spencer) (06/11/86)
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I have seen many a message about this, but no replies. Will it be possible
to boot off of a hard disk, or another disk so that the kickstart and the
workbench disks can be there for a power failure. Well, just printed up
my auto-docs and the very first one I read is expansion.library/AddDosNode
which says something to the effect of: eventually the dos will look for
the boot disk from a list of drives (hard, floppy, ram) in order of a set
priority if there is no boot floppy in the floppy drive (df0:) This is
not yet implimented...
Ok, Kermit.
I didn't know where to look for the longest time either. I thought that
all the files at Cu20B were in the directory KER: Well, it turns out that
there are many... I only remember K2: as being another directory, however
that is the only important one as that is where the requested sources are.
The files are CKI*.* in the K2 directory, and CA*.* in the KER: directory.
KER: only contains the .boo files which contain the executable in a binary
encoded form. There is a program in basic and in C to turn the files
into executable form. I couldn't get the C one to work, the file it created
always returned the error "not object module", but after an hour of process-
ing the basic version gave me a working version of Kermit.
I see Bug Reports about the disks being unreadable, I have moved to 1.2
completely and am having the problem all the time, I mostly get it on the
5 1/4" drive I use for my c: directory. I have not been able to figure it
out. I will get "not a dos disk" errors all day, but the next day I won't,
or vice versa, good disks for 8 hours of running becomes that bad disk of
the day. Nothing I can do to recover it, reboot, power off, come back later,
but the next day it will be fine (maybe). Right now my serial port is out
that is why I am on the PC right now, I am hoping that tomorrow it will
be fine. Boy, these 1.2 gremlins are everywhere. Welcome back Bob & R.J.--
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