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Re: Making a boot disk
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oaaland@aol.com (O Aaland) writes:
><HTML>Hi,
> How can i make a formatted disk a boot floppy? I've got appleworks
>to format a disk, but i want to make a backup of modem disk
>from Steve Cavanaugh. I don't have a copy of the ProDOS utilities
>disk, but i suspect there is another way...
>
>thanks
>pat thomson
>
>If you are using AppleWorks older that version 4.0 any disk that you
>format will not have the proper boot blocks written to it, No matter
>if you put ProDOS and Basic.System on it, it will still come up with
>a message of being an AppleWorks data disk, not a startup disk. You will
>need either the Apple System Utilities or another program like Copy II
>Plus or PROSEL.
>
>Owen Aaland
>
Well, here is a work around. I believe Steve's disk contains ShrinkIt,
It can copy and delete files.
1) Make a shrunk disk of your AppleWorks Program Disk (boot side).
2) Unshrink the file to a disk.
3) Delete all files from the unshrunk disk except ProDos.
4) Reshrink that disk.
5) That file can be used to make bootable disks.
Once unshrunk, you need to copy at least one file that ensd in .system to
the disk. ProDos looks to run the first system file on the disk other
than itself.
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