Re: Booting off floptical

[flash@pro-applejacks.cts.com (Glenn Koproske)]

taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao) writes:

>Unlike tape drives, you can run your
>software right off the floptical.  Also, I've partitioned one floptical
>into 6 800K partitions and one 15-meg partition.  The 800K partitions
>are disk images of System 6.01 and the 15-meg one holds a backup of my
>HD's boot partition.  If anything goes wrong with my HD, I can still
>boot off the floptical and re-install System 6.01 without flipping any
>floppies.  :)

Whoa, hold on there.  You say you CAN do this amazing feat, but HAVE you ever
done it?  It would be great if this works, but I have my doubts about how
smart the Installer script is.  When it wants a new system disk, does it
continue to prompt you to insert it, or does it automatically read the
floptical and find the "volume" and access it seamlessly?

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