Re: Booting off floptical

[fmlin@netcom.com (Fist of Fury)]

>>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?

What Brian did was make 6 800 partitions, and copied the 6 System 6.0.1
disks to each one, named appropriately.  All the installer does is 
search for a disk named :install, or :sys.tools1... etc.  If it can find
in online, it won't prompt you.  Not so amazing, but clever.

-- 
frank m. lin
fmlin@netcom.com