"just hold down SOFTKEY-F2-F4 " Just to remind those trying this, you must first upgrade the ROMs on the PCB before that command works. I tried it with version 2 ROMs and it wouldn't recognize that series of keystrokes. ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:21:05 -0500 From: Corey Stup <Corey@Stup.net> Subject: Re: [Techtoolslist] booting 9100 from floppies To: Technical Tools Mail List <techtoolslist@flippers.com> Message-ID: <4593EEF1.1080604@Stup.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
of course, i havn't got even to that stage yet because i can't get my 9100 to boot from floppy, i had assumed putting the disk in and switching on it should find the disk and try to run off that, but no luck for me trying that...
any thoughts?
Make a set ofthe 6.0 images. The 6.1's can't be trusted. I have a set of 6.1 data, and honestly its minimally different from 6.0. Somewhere I have notes that show which binaries/libraries have any differences at all. Anyway, to boot from floppy, just hold down SOFTKEY-F2-F4 while booting. It will skip the HD and attempt to load from floppy. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist@flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist
just tried it on my system (boot 2.1, software 4.1 (b)) and it did indeed boot from the v6 floppies i made up... now what i need to do is to upgrade the system software on the unit itself from the v6 disks, as the softkey f2/f4 just let me boot from floppy that one time.... i will try out booting from other discs in the v6 package tomorrow to see if i cantransfer the system over.. once again, can anyone remember the pdf that had all these software upgrade instructions in? if i had that, i wouldn't need to keep bugging you all about it ;) i'm stoked that i actually got it to boot from floppies, something that i thought wasn't possible without original discs :) andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Hooks" <markhooks@earthlink.net> To: "Techtoolslist" <Techtoolslist@flippers.com> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 4:43 PM Subject: [Techtoolslist] booting 9100 from floppies
"just hold down SOFTKEY-F2-F4 " Just to remind those trying this, you must first upgrade the ROMs on the PCB before that command works. I tried it with version 2 ROMs and it wouldn't recognize that series of keystrokes.
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andy wrote:
just tried it on my system (boot 2.1, software 4.1 (b)) and it did indeed boot from the v6 floppies i made up...
now what i need to do is to upgrade the system software on the unit itself from the v6 disks, as the softkey f2/f4 just let me boot from floppy that one time....
i will try out booting from other discs in the v6 package tomorrow to see if i cantransfer the system over.. once again, can anyone remember the pdf that had all these software upgrade instructions in? if i had that, i wouldn't need to keep bugging you all about it ;)
You just use "copy disk" from the menu to copy the system and userdisks from DR1 to HDR, it will copy all the files from the floppys to the HD, overwriting whatever you have on there currently. There is no automated install or anything. _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist@flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist
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