Re: Q: Boot from IIGS Alltech Hardisk error msg.

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:49:48 +0200, "Deacon Blue"
<scavenger@apexmail.com> wrote:

>---> Thank you for the feedback, it seems that I indeed have too little
>memory available.  My unit is equipped with a 512K RAM card-expansion, which
>I originally thought would be adequate for the unit.

If that is 512K on the RAM card in a ROM 1 IIgs then that is only
adequate for very early programs and operating systems as that will
only total 768K.

>---> What type of card & size would be your recommendation if acquiring a
>better RAM-card?

For System 6.0.1 I recommend 2 MB minimum (you can't get away with
much less than that anyways) but 4-8 MB is much nicer and allows you
to do more without worrying about running out of memory.

By the way, if your current memory card has some empty sockets in it,
you can probably get yourself up to just over 1 MB by filling those
sockets.  This would allow you to use a fair number of programs and
versions of the operating system up to System 5.0.4 (although you
won't be able to do a lot with only 1 MB).

As for recommendations for a better RAM card, you can check out
Alltech Electronics for their Sirius RAM card that can be purchased
with 2, 4 or 8 MB of RAM installed.  If you get it with 2 or 4 MB then
you can upgrade the card yourself later just by buying more RAM.
Alltech's web site is at:

     http://www.allelec.com/

>Yes, this is indeed  what the screen reports during boot while pressing
>shift-key.  No inits/DA
>I thought this procedure was parallell to Mac OS which disables the
>extentions similarly.

Yes, it is very much like a Mac OS shift boot.

>The error-message changes to:
>
>"Sorry, system error $0201 occured while trying to load the next
>application"

Ah.  I wasn't sure from your last message whether the error message
changed or not.  The error changed because your machine is no longer
trying to load extensions so it didn't run out of memory trying to
load EasyMount but is running out of memory while trying to load the
Finder.

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