amhastings@ucdavis.edu (Alan Hastings) (05/25/91)
As I understand it, even a minimal system 7 does not fit on an 800K floppy. Yet, many times if you are having problems with a hard drive, the first step is to boot from a floppy. Will this be possible with machines with only 800K floppies? Will we have to use a system 6 floppy to rescue a system 7 machine? Could this be why we have yet to see updates to some of the utility programs? Alan Hastings amhastings@ucdavis.edu
jah@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jonathan Helton) (05/25/91)
In article <9030@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> amhastings@ucdavis.edu (Alan Hastings) writes: >As I understand it, even a minimal system 7 does not fit on an 800K floppy. >Yet, many times if you are having problems with a hard drive, the first step is >to boot from a floppy. Will this be possible with machines with only 800K >floppies? Will we have to use a system 6 floppy to rescue a system 7 machine? > >Could this be why we have yet to see updates to some of the utility programs? > >Alan Hastings >amhastings@ucdavis.edu Minimal system 7.0 takes up over 1MB on a HD floppy. The 800k version of the System 7.0 installer disks includes a Disk Tools disk with System 6.0.x for troubleshooting. -- Jonathan Helton jah@casbah.acns.nwu.edu