[comp.sys.amiga] FFS and Install.

BPJ0%LEHIGH.BITNET@ibm1.cc.lehigh.edu (Binoy James. Membership has it's privil) (02/27/90)

I recently installed the FFSfloppy program (Autochange) on a number of
disks.  However when I try to install 'install ff1:' it gives me an
error message.

How can I boot of a FFS disk?

Thanks.
Bin

p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst) (02/28/90)

In article <12368@baldrick.udel.EDU> BPJ0%LEHIGH.BITNET@ibm1.cc.lehigh.edu (Binoy James.  Membership has it's privil) writes:
>I recently installed the FFSfloppy program (Autochange) on a number of
>disks.  However when I try to install 'install ff1:' it gives me an
>error message.
>How can I boot of a FFS disk?

Hmm, I would say it's a Muenchhausen problem.
The FastFileSystem code is on your boot disk. You have to load it before
you can access the disk, but you have to access the disk in order to load it.

With autobooting harddisks there exists a scheme where the driver loads
the FileSystem code from reserved blocks, but with the current (1.3) version
of the system software (dos/trackdisk) you have no chance to boot from
an FFS floppy.

Michael van Elst
p55mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de