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Re: Booting from drive#2
- Subject: Re: Booting from drive#2
- From: cknoblo@oasis.novia.net (Carl Knoblock)
- Date: 1996/12/19
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Novia Internetworking <> 28.8kbps dialup; 402/390-2NET
- References: <591inr$2tl@news.ysu.edu>
Adalbert Goertz (be404@yfn.ysu.edu) wrote:
>
> is it possible ( and how?) to boot GSOS601 from drive#2 like /RAM5?
> I have ROM01 GS and Apple high speed SCSI, AE GS.RAMplus.
> I am thinking of getting RamKeeper w/o software.
> and copy GSOS to /RAM5.
> I copied GSOS to /RAM5 using Finder. The boot crashed from /RAM5.
> Thanks.
As created, /RAM5 has nothing in the boot blocks. You need to initialize
it before you can boot from it. You can also do a Disk Copy of your boot
floppy if /RAM5 is exactly 800K, and then you don't need to initialize.
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Carl G. Knoblock Metro Apple Computer Hobbyists
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