>Thanks for the information. I am finding the DUO 280C a lot of fun. I
>am a little apprehensive, as to corrupting the OS, as I do not have the
>original disks, and I have heard that you must use a special version of
>the OS for the DUO's. The highest version I have on floppy is 7.5.3 and
>8.0 on CD. So I am a more careful about experimentation without the OS.
7.5.3 will work fine. If you're using 7.1, the only "special" thing
that's required is the Duo Enabler, which is available at Apple's FTP
site (v1.0 for the 210/230/250, v2.0 adds support for the colour Duos
and Type III batteries). That support is all rolled into 7.5 so the
vanilla version will work with any 68k Duo and battery, and 7.5.2+
support the 2300.
The one thing that I suppose is "fragile" about the Duo line is that
a dockless one can be inconvenient to recover. I always set them up
with an old version of FWB HD Toolkit (v1.8s) so that I can boot from
a small "emergency" partition with 7.1 by holding down a key set at
boot time. The FWB software can also repartition the existing drive
without having to reinstall anything (or you can do it manually with
Norton Disk Editor and an understanding of the partition table :).
But I should note that I've never actually had to use one of those
emergency partitions (except for routine maintenance, like booting
from it to run a disk defragmenter on the main partition).
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