Emax

Thank you Ted! I am going to buy one as soon as I get an Emax. I bookmarked the page also. Sweet

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, Ted Summers <djtbs1@...> wrote:
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> You won't be able to swap out CF cards like you are describing. That  
> is why I sell a floppy converter.
> So you still have a slim floppy to boot, format, etc.
> Especially in event of trouble.
> But don't need the floppy most of the time.
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> I don't know why people didn't go to the link I sent with the PICS of  
> it in my posts, or read my previous post where I describe this, but  
> here the link is again:
> http://djtbs1.spaces.live.com/
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> pic #4 at the bottom
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> Regards,
> Ted
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> On Oct 25, 2009, at 9:12 AM, dutchbeats wrote:
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> So one would need to keep the floppy drive in so as to load up the OS  
> into the machine just for the first CF card format; after that you can  
> swap the CF card while the machine is booted in order to format and  
> copy the OS to the next CF card once that one is full? Or can you not  
> take out the CF card when the machine is on?
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> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Everett" <evy_newt@> wrote:
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>  > I booted with my floppy drive still in the system to format the cf  
> card, then moved the whole flash drive over to the scsi bus in my pc  
> thinking that I had to copy the software to it using EMXP. At that  
> point I realized that formatting the drive in the machine copies the  
> OS to it and makes it bootable (EMXP recognized the OS). If I would  
> have just changed my SCSI boot device that round and rebooted the EMAX  
> I would have been booting from the CF card. I have an EMAX II in case  
> you're wondering.
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>  > --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, Elk Latham <elk_latham@> wrote:
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>  > > After formatting the CF card, you can use the copy software  
> functions in the master section to copy the OS to the CF card.
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>  > > From: dutchbeats <dutchbeats@>
>  > > To: emax@yahoogroups.com
>  > > Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 7:18:58 PM
>  > > Subject: [emax] How to get the OS onto internal CF card?
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>  > > If the floppy drive has been replaced with an internal CF drive,  
> how do you get the operating system onto the CF card and also format  
> it? Cheers
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