Imagine a boot floppy for the Amiga that has "everything". A single DS/DD floppy which contains various drivers and tools that can be used to set up a harddisk in a quick and easy way, or that can be used to boot up a system in order to fix a broken Workbench installation, or maybe even restore files from a system backup. Imagine that this disk can contain drivers which allows you to easily transfer files from PC to Amiga in various ways like: PC formatted floppy disks, CD-ROMs burned on the PC or by using a Compact Flash memory card together with a CF to PCMCIA adapter.
Imagine that this disk in addition to the most essential Workbench files also includes the following:
Fat95
LhA 1.38
mARK (a very simplistic archive extraction GUI)
MiniXpkGuide (renamed to MultiView on the disk)
NCD (change dir in Shell via a requester)
reqtools.library
ScreenMode
ShowConfig
ToolsDaemon
UnLZX 2.16
And that it can also contain the following:
AmiCDFS (gives CD ROM support)
CFD (gives Compact Flash card support via CF to PCMCIA adapter)
FFS (Fast File System with TD64 patch)
HDToolBox (can be patched to work with Compact Flash cards)
PrepCard (configure PCMCIA SRAM card as RAM or storage device)
SFS (Smart File System)
And that it can also contain the following programs:
FileMaster3 (very powerful file manager)
JanoEditor (simple and efficient text editor)
SysInfo (gives comprehensive system information)
HDInstTools (harddisk installation tool)
Imagine that all of the above (which in total is around 1.5MB of files) can fit on a single 880KB floppy disk! Imagine that you can easily create such a disk for yourself where it contains the stuff that YOU prefer! Imagine that you can actually create multiple boot disks where each one is customized for each of your Amigas (if you have several of them).
Impossible, stop joking, get real, it can't be done, take your medication, you're dreaming, what are you smoking..... I hear you all say, but all of this is actually possible, just take a look here:
http://rhz1.com/programs/Amiga911Maker.htm
