If you're worried about reliability, why not put two floppy drives in the system? Don't plug up the second floppy drive (except to test it of course;-) and seal the fron with tape. When a failure occurs, power off the machine do the cable swap and reboot. You are, of course, backing up the floppy itself as well, right;-) >JjV<
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bruce Morgen Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 8:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: no floppies? --------------------- Attention ----------------------------- Online GNAT Box User Forum is Now Open Click the Register link and sign up today http://www.gnatbox.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi ------------------------------------------------------------- Send postings to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Access the list archives at: http://www.gnatbox.com/gb-users/ ------------------------------------------------------------- GTA has been very firm about steering clear of hard disk support. The most straightforward solution would be to find a flash-based floppy disk equivalent -- I've even seen on of these in the form of a 3.5" floppy disk for insertion into an actual floppy drive: http://www.digitalvice.com/adapters/flashpath.html There is also project called "FLOPPER" which is designed to allow the booting of older, boot- from-floppy PC games -- the beta version is distributed with source in Pascal, so it might be practical to adapt this code to boot Gnatbox from a disk image residing on a DOS-formatted hard drive: http://www.oldskool.org/pc/flopper/ On Fri, 07 Jul 2000 13:19:45 -0600 "Bryan T. Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --------------------- Attention ----------------------------- > Online GNAT Box User Forum is Now Open > Click the Register link and sign up today > http://www.gnatbox.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Send postings to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Access the list archives at: http://www.gnatbox.com/gb-users/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Greetings... > > Is it possible to install Gnatbox onto a flash-ram based ide > disk? Or even SCSI... floppies are to unreliable for my > comfort level. I know the GB-100 uses a flash disk, and it > seems an excellent device, but I would rather use existing > hardware for our Gnatbox. > > Thank you in advance, > -Bryan > -- > > > Bryan T. Schmidt > Systems/Network Administrator > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Profitool Inc. > ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ---------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe gb-users your_email_address in the body of the message
