Re: Creating Startup Disks?

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 22 Apr 1998 06:45:37 GMT, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

>No need to "rename the Start file" thingy under System 6.0.1.
>This is no "pirate" technique, by the way.  ;-)  I have seen some
>of Shareware Solutions II's disks and some boot using
>SetStart, so it is completely legit and safe.

Why bother using SetStart?  If you want to make a program bootable on
a floppy disk, the standard way is:

1) make a bootable floppy (either copy one or use the Installer from
GS/OS and delete the files on it that you don't need such as Finder,
Control Panel NDA, SetStart CDEV, et al)

2) copy the files for the program to the root directory of the new
bootable floppy

3) rename the file you use to start the program with (usually the only
S16 file there but some have a separate start program) as *.SYS16

For example: if the program you copied to the bootable floppy is
currently called GSInvaders, rename it to GSInvader.SYS16.  NOTE:  I
had to reduce the name by one character to have the new name fit in
ProDOS' 15 character filename limit.

You can also get away with copying the program files into the SYSTEM
directory and renaming the start program as START but it isn't as
clean a way to do it.  Besides, unless you label the disk, it isn't
very easy to tell what program is actually on the disk this way.

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