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Originally Posted by nogginthenog
Funny enough I made an emergency boot floppy last week. Roadshow, smbfs, hdtoolbox & lha easily fit on a 880k floppy. From there I can rebuild my hard drive if the worse happens.
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Yeah, I've been down that route too, nogginthenog.
smbFS is a really good tool for this purpose, and that may be a part of the solution for installing CD-based systems by mounting the ISO over SMB. I've tried it, and it works fine.
When I made this disk however, my focus was to try to not use more than one technology on the serverside. And http can be used more safely even over the internet.
Another approach is to use FTPmount as I'm then able to mount the FTP-directory as a volume in AmigaOS. It works fine too for installing simple things.
But I think that the key to everything of this is UHC-Tools with aget and aminetsearch/aminetget. Those are really powerfull tools in these minimalistic environments.