Re: formatting a bootable ProDos disk

[Erick Wagner <wagnere@netcom.com>]

raymac@crl.com (Raymond D. McAnally) wrote:

> Dennis L. Director (dennis@inr-solutions.com) wrote:
> : A simple question: I have a ProDos disk that does not boot 
> : but will run if I type "Run Startup". 

If are powering up the computer with a disk in the drive and you
get the "]" prompt, then you have a "boot disk."

A program such as Copy II+ can format a disk for ProDOS;  you'd call
this a ProDOS data disk.  You can make the disk bootable by doing
two additional things.  First, copy the file "PRODOS" from a known
working disk to the newly formatted disk.  Next, copy a program who's
name ends with ".SYSTEM" and has a file type of SYS ($FF).  After
you've done that, the disk is "bootable."

If the ".SYSTEM" file is BASIC.SYSTEM, you can create an
Applesoft BASIC program called STARTUP and BASIC.SYSTEM will
automagically run it for you.