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Re: ][+ auto-boot from hard drive?



Shawn Beattie <sbeattie@sparc5.augustana.edu> wrote:

> David Empson wrote:
> > 
> > If you don't have either of those, or don't know how to use them (they
> > are quite complex), the following sequence of instructions should do the
> > trick, as long as you can use ProDOS.
> > 
> 
> Couldn't he also format a ProDOS disk, get into BASIC.SYSTEM and 
> ]CREATE PRODOS,TSYS
> ]CALL -151
> *2000: 4C 00 C7 (or whatever)
> *BSAVE PRODOS,TSYS,A$2000,Lx

That isn't setting up the boot block, but it would work provided the
boot block contains valid code, and your dummy disk is a ProDOS one.

Much easier.

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David Empson
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