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